Histerica
Plau · Ana Laura Ferraz
A display serif drawn from a 1908 French newspaper typeface, developed by Ana Laura Ferraz into a five-weight family with curled terminals and rounded serifs, conceived as a comment on female rage and suffragette history.
About
Beginning as a revival of a typeface spotted in a 1908 edition of Le Petit Journal, Histerica grew into something deliberately contradictory: firm, robust uppercase letters paired with friendly lowercase forms, curled snail-like terminals alongside sharply cut corners. The five static weights from Light to ExtraBold are also available as a variable font, and the family is intended for book covers, posters, editorial titles and visual identities. Its conceptual framing, as a well-behaved form that still speaks to female anger, gives it a particular charge for feminist-adjacent editorial work.
Classification
A display serif with organic, snail-shaped terminals and rounded-base serifs, revived from an early 20th-century French newspaper typeface and developed into a contemporary editorial family.