Leitura font specimen

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Leitura


Includes small caps, ligatures, alternates and swashes. The Leitura font family also contains CE glyphs and is ideal for magazine publishing.


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DSType Specially designed for editorial purposes.

Leitura Display

Swashes


Leitura System

A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Leitura Display

Italic


Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

Leitura Display

Roman


A clean, legible, corporate and contemporary font family which dovetails beautifully with the Leitura serif variations.

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Sans/Italic

Leitura Headline


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Serif/Italic

Leitura Headline


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Leitura Sans

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Leitura Sans

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ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ DSType was founded in late 1994 by Dino Leitura News is an elegant abcdefghijklm dos Santos who has since designed typefont family, especially suitanopqrstuvwxyz faces for several corporations, magable for newspaper publishing. zines and cultural projects. Dos Santos 1234567890 has created some notable typefaces like winner of the Creative Review ABCDEFGHIJKLM Andrade, Type Design Award for the Best Revival NOPQRSTUVWXYZ/ Extension Family in 2005 and Ventura, awarded the Certificate of Excellence in abcdefghijklm Type Design by the Type Directors Club New York in 2008. Other notable renopqrstuvwxyz ofleases include contemporary sans Priva Pro which includes Greek and Cyrillic 1234567890 glyphs and the versatile Leitura Type ABCDEFGHIJKLM System. DSType’s new premium type series has been launched with the proNOPQRSTUVWXYZ fessional Glosa and Prelo OpenType font families as the first offerings. abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz Dino’s most well known font is probably the beautiful art deco Estilo Script; full 1234567890 background information on Estilo and all other DSType fonts follows below, with comments by dos Santos himself. All DSType fonts are available in OpenType format as single fonts or family packs for immediate download, trademarks of Dino dos Santos and DSType.

Leitura News

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Arrows


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Circles


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Dingbats


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Character set


A clean, legible, corporate and contemporary font family which dovetails beautifully with the Leitura serif variations.

The Leitura font family also contains CE glyphs and is ideal for magazine publishing. Anyone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen realizes the advantage of having the proper knives for the job at hand. Be it the pairing knife or the mezzaluna, the fish fillet knife or the meat cleaver – all of the same incising family but formally different and individually crafted for a specific set of tasks. Like a finely tuned Misono set, Leitura proves to be a superb tool kit for the typographer. Dos Santos said that he originally set out to create an array of neutral typefaces that could work together and achieve an invisibility – lacking in details that would distract from the content. The result is a type family with extraordinary detail ranging across sans, serif, news, headline, and display versions, as well as a custom group of symbols. While there have been a number of family releases that offer a similar selection of weights and styles, Leitura is astounding for its simultaneous contrast and consistency. Rather than staying bound to a strict serif, terminal or finial structure, Leitura gives us transitional, didone and chunky slabs. There are sans serifs with humanist proportions and italics with whimsical ligatures. Small caps and short decorative flourishes. And in an almost unthinkable way they all manage to work together without looking overly similar, without having mundane rhythms or becoming too visually disparate. Bravo Dino!


Leitura is part of the Leitura Type System and was specially designed for editorial purposes. Includes small caps, ligatures, alternates and swashes.

DSType was founded in late 1994 by Dino dos Santos who has since designed typefaces for several corporations, magazines and cultural projects. Dos Santos has created some notable typefaces like Andrade, winner of the Creative Review Type Design Award for the Best Revival / Extension Family in 2005 and Ventura, awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club of New York in 2008. Other notable releases include contemporary sans Priva Pro which includes Greek and Cyrillic glyphs and the versatile Leitura Type System. DSType’s new premium type series has been launched with the professional Glosa and Prelo OpenType font families as the first offerings. Dino’s most well known font is probably the beautiful art deco Estilo Script; full background information on Estilo and all other DSType fonts follows below, with comments by dos Santos himself. All DSType fonts are available in OpenType format as single fonts or family packs for immediate download, trademarks of Dino dos Santos and DSType.

Leitura News is an elegant font family, especially suitable for newspaper publishing.


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