The roman Leo fonts were built with as little ornamentation as possible, with wedge serifs, a high x-height and a skeleton somehwat rooted in the designers' reflections on the modern, post-war Dutch archetype. Rather than follow traditional models with entirely different forms, contracted widths and steep slants, the Leo italics deliver naturally subtle emphasis in reading by closely relating to the forms, stance and rhythm of their roman counterparts.
The 12 Leo fonts contain over 700 glyphs each, and include support for the vast majority of Latin languages. Included OpenType features are built-in small caps, lining and oldstyle figures in both proportional and tabular sets, superiors, numerators, denominators inferiors, ordinals, automatic fractions, ligatures, and optional long descenders for optimal counterspace management in book and magazine text layout.
For more information on Leo's character set, features and some print tests, please consult the PDF in the gallery section of this page.
Font Family:
· Leo Light
· Leo Light Italic
· Leo Book
· Leo Book Italic
· Leo SmallText
· Leo SmallText Italic
· Leo
· Leo Italic
· Leo Medium
· Leo Medium Italic
· Leo Bold
· Leo Bold Italic
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