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Sunlight

Newglyph · Ian Party

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Sunlight specimen from Newglyph

A high-contrast Didone with large-than-life proportions from Ian Party at Newglyph, available in 72 styles including variable axes for weight, width and contrast.

About

Drawing on the Didot tradition while referencing Caslon, Sunlight pairs extreme stroke contrast with generous proportions across 72 static styles and two variable fonts. The family spans Roman, Italic, Contrast and Contrast Italic subfamilies, with each style containing 455 glyphs and coverage for a broad range of Latin-script languages. The variable axes for weight, width and contrast give designers fine-grained control for display and editorial applications.

Classification

Sunlight is described as a Didot typeface with high contrast and large proportions, placing it firmly in the modern serif (Didone) tradition, distinguished by extreme thick-to-thin stroke contrast and vertical stress.

Weights

ThinLightRegularMediumBoldBlack

Family

Sunlight RomanSunlight ItalicSunlight ContrastSunlight Contrast Italic

Languages

Latin Extended

Tags

didonehigh-contrastmodern serifvariableeditorialfashionelegant