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What happens if one tries to design some Didone letterfoms using a broad-nib pen? This question was the starting point for this project when, in June 2013, the first sketches of Silva began. Designed primarily for editorial use, Silva is a superfamily ideal to typographically complex environments requiring a highly versatile typeface. With slightly condensed proportions, generous x-height, moderated ascenders and descenders and robust serifs, it is an extremely readable and economic type. Subdivided in two optical sizes, the family has a total of 26 fonts including italics.
Silva has an extensive character set — almost 900 glyphs covering more than 190 languages — that provides both old style and lining figures as well as their respective tabular versions, fractions, various ligatures, small capitals, arrows and a number of different symbols.
Silva has an extensive character set — almost 900 glyphs covering more than 190 languages — that provides both old style and lining figures as well as their respective tabular versions, fractions, various ligatures, small capitals, arrows and a number of different symbols.
Silva is the most popular surname in Brazil. It is estimated that currently about 10% of the brazilian population (+20 million people) have that surname.
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