Ipazia
CAST · Luciano Perondi · 2025
A text serif by Luciano Perondi drawing on late 19th- and early 20th-century Elzevir typefaces, with deliberate irregularity built into its proportions and weight progression.
About
Designed by Luciano Perondi and rooted in Italian and German newspaper types of the Elzevir tradition, Ipazia intentionally courts inconsistency: the regular weight is fully seriffed, while the ExtraBold sheds its serifs to become a contrasted sans. That progression is not a technical oversight but a design position, pushing formal variation across weights to animate the text without disrupting overall page colour. The family currently covers the Text optical size in five weights with matching italics, with display sizes in development.
Classification
Rooted in late 19th- and early 20th-century Elzevir typefaces, Ipazia combines bracketed serifs with unusual weight progression, where the ExtraBold approaches a contrasted sans, placing it in a transitional yet unconventional serif category.