piazzolla

Piazzolla font family

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

• Download the latest version of Piazzolla and Piazzolla SC
• For older versions and the changelog, you can refer to the releases section

Contributing

Requirements

• Glyphs (for editing sources)
• Python 3 (for building fonts)

Setup

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

Build ufos and generate fonts

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

Running tests

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