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Gordon specimen from Ludwig

A three-weight text serif with small caps and italics, designed for sustained reading in literary and editorial contexts.

About

Gordon offers Light, Regular and Bold weights, each accompanied by an italic and a small caps cut, giving eight styles in total. The family is clearly oriented toward long-form text work, with the sample copy drawn from Fitzgerald suggesting a literary sensibility. Small caps are provided in the lighter and regular weights, which points to careful attention to typographic hierarchy.

Classification

The presence of small caps, italic companions, and the refined weight range suggest a traditional text serif in the transitional vein, suited to extended literary or editorial typesetting.

Weights

LightRegularBold

Languages

Latin

Tags

seriftextliterarysmall-capseditorialtraditional