Gabriola
Tiro Typeworks · John Hudson, Marian Bantjes
A single-style display serif by John Hudson with flourish design by Marian Bantjes, offering an exceptional range of OpenType stylistic alternates rooted in Renaissance calligraphic tradition.
About
Designed by John Hudson with Marian Bantjes contributing the elaborate flourish variants, Gabriola draws on Renaissance pen lettering to produce a display serif of considerable ornamental depth. The font ships in one style but carries 4,517 glyphs, covering extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alongside numerous stylistic alternates and swash variants accessible via OpenType features. Originally developed in connection with Microsoft, it remains one of the more typographically ambitious display faces to emerge from that collaboration.
Classification
Gabriola is a display serif with extensive flourish variants, drawing on Renaissance calligraphic traditions; its elaborate stylistic alternates and swashes place it firmly in the display category.