Prensa Display
Occupant Fonts · Cyrus Highsmith · 1993
A sharper, more tightly fitted display companion to Cyrus Highsmith's Prensa text family, built for powerful headline work across three widths.
About
Designed by Cyrus Highsmith as a headline counterpart to his Prensa text face, Prensa Display retains the distinctive internal tension of the original while introducing sharper features and a more compact fit. Thirty-six styles span six weights from Light to Black across standard, Condensed and Compressed widths, each with matching italics. The narrower cuts are built explicitly for dense headline settings where typographic impact matters.
Classification
A display-optimised companion to the Prensa text family, with sharper features and tighter fit than its text counterpart, placing it firmly in the display serif category designed for headline and large-scale use.