Gala
Gala-Regular      Gala-Bold      Gala-Ombra	$22.95
Gala Condensed
Gala Condensed-Regular      Gala Condensed Medium      Gala Condensed Bold	$22.95
Gala Open
Gala-Biline      Gala-Triline	$14.95

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: November 22nd, 2004 (Updated: Apr 12th, 05)
Designed by: G. Da Milano, Rebecca Alaccari, Patrick Griffin
Designed when: 2005
Contained in Categories: Legible, Sans Serif, Transitional
Design owned by: Canada Type
MyFonts Keywords: 1930s, biline, chromatic, clean, cool, dance, elegant, expressive, fashionable, futuristic, geometric, informal, italian, legible, light, linear, linearsans, lined, logo, minimal, modern, modest, monoline, narrow, nightclub, party, plain, poster, retro, sansserif, signage, soft, standard, striped, techno, transitional, triline, unicase [suggest]

Gala

Gala is the digitization of the one of the most important Italian typefaces of the twentieth century: G. da Milano’s 1935 Neon design for the Nebiolo foundry.

This design’s importance is in being the predecessor - and perhaps direct ancestor - of Aldo Novarese’s Microgramma (and later Eurostile), which paved the world’s way to the gentle transitional, futuristic look we now know and see everywhere.

It is also one of the very first designs made under the direction of Alessandro Butti, a very important figure in Italian design.

It is quite strange, not to mention unfair, that this typeface, though way ahead of its time, is rarely mentioned in type history, but one could reason that it must have been treated with disdain like much of the immediate pre-war Italian artwork, and was later filed under the more visible gems Nebiolo produced through the prolificacy of Butti and Novarese.

It is too bad that historically important designs such as this one went uncredited in the later boom of geometric and techno designs of the second half of the twentieth century.

Gala comes in three styles: A slender, elegant and very fashionable main weight, a strong yet distinctively clear and legible bold, and one of the most unusual shadow/fill treatments to come out of 1930s Europe. Plenty of alternates are included within the fonts.

This is the perfect combination of accessories for your modern poster design, signage, book cover, product label, or just anything where it is good to keep the message of modernity friendly and inviting.

Gala Condensed

The Gala Condensed fonts come because of popular demand. Ever since Canada Type released the Gala set, we keep receiving e-mail asking us for a condensed version. So here it is. The original Gala fonts were a revival of Giulio da Milano’s 1935 Neon Design for the Italian Nebiolo foundry. That design was the immediate predecessor of the popular Microgramma family, which became the definitive modern 20th century expression of friendly letter forms. The appeal of the Gala’s design lies in the rare combination of informal elegance that these letters make. And now that the condensed version is here, the elegance of these letters can be used to construct wordy headlines where space is a concern, or simply mark a design in an elegant out-of-the-way manner that is a statement by itself. Gala Condensed comes in three weights: regular, medium and bold.

Gala Open

Gala was always the perfect candidate for a 1970s-like treatment of outlining and trilining. So now you have the two additional Gala display styles that you always thought would be great on your music sleeves or retro design. While the Biline font is somewhat reserved, its lines and curves standing respectably among other design elements on the page, the Triline is all-out wild, ready to take on everyone on your dance floor and dizzy up the crowd with how cool it is.

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‘Gala’ is a trademark of Canada Type.

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