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Adagio Slab

by Machalski
Individual Styles from $25.00 USD
Complete family of 18 fonts: $270.00 USD
The Adagio Slab Font Family was designed by Mateusz Machalski and published by Machalski. Adagio Slab contains 18 styles and family package options.

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The Adagio Family is a part of Mateusz Machalski’s, Warsaw Academy of fine arts Master Degree Diploma in multimedia studio, conducted by Professor Stanisław Wieczorek and his brave PhD student Jakub Wróblewski. Adagio is a modern type family. It consists of 3 main varieties: sans, serif and slab. Each has its own “true italic” set. All of the styles together have over 400 characters in 9 different thicknesses. The Adagio family was created mostly for company identities. The idea was to create a wide range of different varieties that are stylistically consistent. Adagio Slab - Slab variety combines qualities of the Sans and Serif varieties. It has the same contrast as Sans. As distinct from Serif, Adagio Slab contains strong, beamy and symmetrical serifs in the form of pillows. Thanks to large X height, and highly stretched descenders, it also works correctly in longer text, while its strong detail is good for headlines. Slab version is a great complement for Adagio Serif and Adagio Sans.

Designers: Mateusz Machalski

Publisher: Machalski

Foundry: Machalski

Design Owner: Machalski

MyFonts debut: Jul 17, 2014

Adagio Slab

About Machalski

Dr hab. Mateusz Machalski, Associate Professor (b. 1989) – Vice-Rector for Artistic Affairs at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Designer, typographer, lecturer and researcher specializing in visual communication and graphic design. He graduated with Rector’s Honours from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2009–2014), where he currently teaches at the Multimedia Artistic Creation Studio. Named Designer of the Year 2019 at the Polish Graphic Awards, he has been repeatedly awarded in national and international competitions, including KTR, Ascender 2018 – Type Directors Club New York, MUSTHAVE, The DieLine, Red Dot Design, The Best of Design 2018 – Klub Twórców Reklamy, and Animator 2020 – DESIGN ALIVE. He is a five-time recipient of the Polish Ministry of Culture’s scholarship, a laureate of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s scholarship for outstanding young researchers, and of the “Young Poland” programme by the National Centre for Culture. He was awarded the Centennial of Regained Independence Medal by the President of Poland. He is a curator and member of the programme board of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, and Art Director of the magazines newonce paper and Warsawholic. He has created more than 80 typeface families – including numerous corporate and multi-script designs – and over 200 visual identities for companies, institutions and cultural events. His fonts are distributed through platforms such as Google Fonts, Adobe and Monotype, and his clients include leading Polish and global brands. He has led teams digitizing key works of Polish typography, including “Półtawski Nowy”, “BRYGADA 1918” (launched at the Presidential Palace), and carried out the long-term “Bona Nova” project together with Andrzej Heidrich – the designer of Polish banknotes. He co-created Typoteka – the first Polish index of typography (1474–2024). Co-founder of the first Polish type foundry – Capitalics. He is also the author of numerous texts, articles and exhibitions on graphic design and visual culture, as well as the “Creative Typography” course published by Design Practice. He conducts research projects, workshops and lectures at universities and conferences in Poland and abroad.

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