Avona Serif
Arcane Type Foundry · Alanna Munro · 2021
A calligraphy-influenced humanist serif by Alanna Munro, drawing on Carolingian round forms to produce a warm, characterful text face.
About
Designed by Alanna Munro and published in 2021, this serif takes Carolingian calligraphy as its starting point, producing wide, round letterforms with expressive details that sit outside the usual neutral text-serif conventions. Six static weights run from Light to Black, complemented by a variable font with a continuous weight axis. OpenType features include oldstyle figures, tabular numbers, fractions, superscripts and subscripts, with Latin Extended coverage suitable for a broad range of Western European and Vietnamese languages.
Classification
Described explicitly as humanist in influence, with round, wide forms drawn from Carolingian calligraphy. The calligraphic roots and warm, expressive details place it firmly in the humanist serif tradition.