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Lalibela™

by CyberGraphics
Individual Styles from $43.00 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $95.00 USD
Lalibela Font Family was designed by Jan Erasmus and published by CyberGraphics. Lalibela contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Per Style:

$31.66 USD

Pack of 3 styles:

$95.00 USD

About Lalibela Font Family


My motivation for designing the Lalibela family (which is based on Bodoni) was to pay homage to Ethiopic script. The script has been around for about 3 000 years, but I took artistic licence to deviate from the original model and add personal touches. I chose Bodoni as a historical model because of its display value and not its text size use because the extreme contrast made it difficult to read at small sizes. A Modern typeface characterized by consistently horizontal stress, flat and un-bracketed serifs, and a high contrast between thin and thick strokes, were the final step in typography two-hundred-year journey away from calligraphy. The austerity, simplicity and greater contrast style was perfected.Contrary to all the refinements in Bodoni, I have revisited calligraphy with the font Lalibela that mimics Ethiopic Script. It was drawn with a much larger x height and less geometric than Bodoni for its primary use as a display font. For example, a lot of italic serifs were added to the roman face as well as 16 additional ligatures to obtain more a feel of calligraphy. I made the serifs thicker and bracket one side with straight steps obtaining a reduced contrast to withstand breaking up at smaller sizes.An additional variant, "Lalibela Alternate" was designed to provide an interesting mixing possibilities with the Bold face for more expressive headlines.

Designers: Jan Erasmus

Publisher: CyberGraphics

Foundry: CyberGraphics

Design Owner: CyberGraphics

MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000

Lalibela™ is a trademark of CyberGraphics.

About CyberGraphics

Design studio and font foundry created by Jan Erasmus.

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