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Lava specimen from Typotheque

A humanist text serif from Typotheque with six weights, matching italics and a variable font, designed for demanding editorial and literary contexts.

About

Six weights from Thin to Heavy, each with a corresponding italic, give Lava considerable range across editorial and book work. The typeface has been used in publication design at The New Republic and in Gallimard's Charlotte Perriand title, which speaks to its suitability for sustained reading. A variable font version is available alongside the static styles.

Classification

Lava presents as a humanist serif with warm, readable forms suited to extended text setting, as evidenced by its use in editorial and book contexts such as The New Republic and Gallimard publications.

Weights

ThinLightRegularMediumBoldHeavy

Languages

Latin

Tags

humanistserifeditorialbooktextvariablemultilingualliterary