LudwigType | Newsletter 2

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Dear friends of type. LudwigType is delighted to announce the release of new typefaces designed by Ludwig Übele.

Riga & Riga Screen

Riga

Riga is a space-saving and highly legible typeface designed to work equally well on paper and on screen. It’s personality is clear and practical, yet warm and polite. Economical proportions, high x-height and open letter forms result in a very useable typeface. In particular, for delicate tasks like narrow columns or tight headlines. It is suitable for a wide variety of typography, such as complex corporate design, editorial, information graphics, packaging, wayfinding and branding projects. Riga is exceptionally readable at small point sizes and elegant at larger ones.

Riga

The Riga type family contains 18 styles and weights, covers all major languages using latin characters, and includes a wide range of OpenType features. Riga fonts come for desktop and web.

Riga Screen

Riga Screen has been designed to work particularly well on screen. Responsive websites and office applications will appreciate it’s economic proportions. It has been specially engineered and optimized for exceptional readability in small sizes on all current computer monitors, in­cluding tablets and smartphones. Riga Screen has been carefully ClearType hinted to ensure optimal on-screen performance in all browsers and applications. Since Mac OS ignores font hinting completely, Riga Screen is slightly ligher to gain a more balanced image of text on Apple devices.

Riga Screen

Riga (top) and Riga Screen (below). Riga Screen is slightly lighter and wider than Riga to provide better legibility at small sizes. Complex letter forms as the lowercase g has been simplified.

Riga Screen

Screen rendering of Riga Screen on Windows (left) and Macintosh (right).

Riga Screen

Verdana (top), Lucida Grande (middle) and Riga Screen (bottom).

Riga Screen

Unlike the extensive Riga type family Riga Screen comes in four style-linked fonts. It can be perfectely combined with the Riga type family: Use Riga Screen for small text on screen, and Riga for headlines and larger text.

Get free demo fonts here.

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Best regards,
Ludwig Übele, LudwigType