Typeface Design for Editorial and Press Use

Neo-Baroque text typeface with Dutch stylistic roots and Spanish authorship

Trola is a neo-Baroque text typeface intended for press, corporate, and editorial use. Its large x-height, short extenders, and round italics suit small sizes and compact settings; moderate contrast also makes it viable as a headline face for screen. The design draws on the goût hollandois tradition—tall x-height, condensed proportions, dark color—with roman letterforms referencing Johann Michael Fleischman (notably the 'a' and 'g') and italics echoing Gerard Unger's branching approach. A 2017 update added Cyrillic, designed by Letterjuice (Pilar Cano & Ferran Millan) and supervised by Russian type designers Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky.

Set in Trola