Typeface Family for Print and Web
Geometric structure meets cursive hand
Irma Text Slab is a humanist slab serif designed by Peter Biľak (Latin and Greek) and Alexander Tarbeev (Cyrillic), released by Typotheque in 2011. It inherits the geometric structure of the caps-only Irma Display typefaces while introducing cursive handwriting influences to soften the rigidity typical of slab designs. Within the broader Irma family—which spans text and display fonts in sans, slab, and round flavours—Irma Text Slab is the slab text member. Stylistic Sets allow control over cursiveness, and each weight includes eight numeral styles.
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- The design synthesises two normally opposing construction principles—geometric sans structure and humanist cursive drawing—to produce what the foundry describes as a dynamic character.
- Each weight ships with proportional old-style figures as default, plus lining, tabular (lining and old-style), superior, inferior, circled, and circled-inverted numerals—eight variants total.
- Stylistic Sets expose individual letter alternates and their accented variants; licensees can set preferred default characters at the font level.
- Design responsibilities were divided by script: Biľak handled Latin and Greek; Tarbeev handled Cyrillic. Igino Marini is credited as contributor across all three scripts.
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