Type system intended for optimizing the available space in press media and other publications. It has a compact appearance which allows for small font sizes and tight leading while achieving solid lines and robust paragraphs.
Piazzolla has a distinctive voice that conveys a personal style, especially in display sizes. It has great performance and readability in small point sizes and long texts, both for screen and printing.
- Download the latest version of Piazzolla and Piazzolla SC
- For older versions and the changelog, you can refer to the releases section
- Glyphs (for editing sources)
- Python 3 (for building fonts)
To run any of the commands, you need to generate the virtual environment (venv) and install dependencies. It will generate a venv folder
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
To build the fonts there are several steps and all the process is being handled by a custom script. All the magic happens by running in terminal:
bash build.sh
for Variable Fonts
fontbakery check-universal fonts/Piazzolla/variable/ttf/*
for Static Fonts
fontbakery check-universal fonts/Piazzolla/static/ttf/*
for UFO sources (replace UFO_PATH for the ufo you want to check)
fontbakery check-ufo-sources UFO_PATH