ABC Laica
Dinamo Typefaces · Alessio D'Ellena · 2024
A contemporary serif by Alessio D'Ellena with chiselled transitions and a matching monospaced cut, born of a forced marriage between broad and pointed nib pens.
About
A contemporary serif by Alessio D'Ellena, sketched as a student at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague between airport armchairs and Roman trams, that frames itself as a playful retort to calligraphy in an era of cheap flights and remote work. Chiselled transitions create rhythm and optical balance for text, and a stylistic set switches them to straight transitions for a simpler tone. Both proportional Laica and Laica Mono ship in Light, Book, Regular, Medium and Bold weights with matching italics, sitting comfortably across editorial, branding and code-adjacent product work.
Classification
Dinamo describes Laica as the result of a forced collaboration between the broad nib pen and the pointed nib pen, with chiselled transitions by default that can be flattened to straight transitions via a stylistic set, available in proportional and monospaced subfamilies.