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Arillatype · Pedro Arilla · 2024
A rounded geometric sans by Pedro Arilla, conceived on a flight from Tokyo to Madrid and shaped by Japanese visual culture, spanning nine weights from Air to Super with matching italics.
About
Designed by Pedro Arilla with italics by Julián Moncada, the family runs 18 styles across nine weights from the very light Air through to Super, plus a Retina cut optimised for high-density screens. Eight stylistic sets cover alternate forms for both upper and lowercase characters, alongside ordinals, old-style figures, tabular figures and a slashed zero. The full family includes variable font files, and Latin Extended coverage reaches 279 languages.
Classification
A rounded sans-serif with geometric tendencies, its softened terminals and even stroke weights place it firmly in the geometric sans tradition, with subtle humanist inflections drawn from Japanese visual culture.