Arlt
Pampatype · Alejandro Lo Celso · 2008
A text serif by Alejandro Lo Celso named after the Argentinian writer Roberto Arlt, drawing on Baroque and Mannerist models to produce capricious, rhythmically compelling roman and italic styles suited to literary typesetting.
About
Designed in four weights with matching italics, Arlt builds its character through whimsical details and vigorous counterforms that trace a lineage back to 17th and 18th century Baroque and Mannerist typography. Both roman and italic cuts carry an impulsive energy that settles into a harmonious, comfortable reading texture across long literary texts. The family was a Typographica Favourite of 2008 and received an honourable mention at the Creative Review awards in London in 2005.
Classification
Pampatype classifies Arlt as a serif with old-style character; its vigorous counterforms and whimsical details explicitly link to Baroque and Mannerist typography of the 17th and 18th centuries, placing it firmly in the old-style tradition.