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Rivel

by Tipo Pèpel
Individual Styles from $24.00 USD
Complete family of 18 fonts: $89.00 USD
The Rivel Font Family was designed by Josep Patau Bellart and published by Tipo Pèpel. Rivel contains 18 styles and family package options.

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Rivel is a lively, characterful display typeface inspired by the magic, irony and poetic tension of the circus. It balances humor and structure, softness and impact, creating a typographic voice that feels theatrical yet carefully controlled. Built around a distinctive round axis, Rivel offers total control over curvature and softness. Designers can modulate the personality of the letterforms — from crisp and assertive to fully rounded and playful — simply by adjusting the axis. This duality gives the typeface remarkable expressive range while maintaining visual coherence. The family includes multiple weights — Regular, Semibold, Bold and Black, each with corresponding Round versions — allowing for bold contrasts and layered typographic compositions. From subtle emphasis to powerful headlines, Rivel performs confidently at display sizes. A defining feature of Rivel is its extensive system of alternates. Every letter includes variant forms, and they operate through the contextual alternates OpenType feature. This means the typeface dynamically adapts as you type, generating natural variation, rhythm and movement within words and lines. The result is a living texture — expressive, fluid and never mechanically repetitive. Rivel thrives in posters, branding, editorial headlines, packaging and any project that embraces personality and visual storytelling. It evokes spectacle without chaos, playfulness without losing typographic discipline. Expressive, warm and unapologetically charismatic, Rivel is not just a typeface — it is a performance.

Designers: Josep Patau Bellart

Publisher: Tipo Pèpel

Foundry: Tipo Pèpel

Design Owner: Tipo Pèpel

MyFonts debut: Feb 17, 2026

Rivel

About Tipo Pèpel

Located in a small town, Les Borges Blanques, Spain, Tipo Pèpel is a digital type foundry run by Josep Patau. The self-taught designer began producing experimental typefaces in 1996 and started selling them through MyFonts in 2011. His debut font, Anduaga, was a revival from Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti, the XVII´s famous spanish calligrapher. Since then, his library had expanded to include nearly two dozen font families, each of which is unique and reflects the small country town he comes from with a familiar rural feel. Some of Josep’s best selling typefaces, including Pobla, Bridone, and Cinta, really demonstrate the impact his home has on his designs, while Boxed, a semi-modular geometric font, is a step outside of this theme. “All of my projects excite me and I put my best into each of them, doing everything with my own two hands,” Josep says. “I treat them all like my children.” With a focus on the details and creating high quality drawings, each of his fonts offers an extended character map that is fully capable with OpenType features. He also diligently insures that each of his typefaces is legible in all sizes. “I think that this is one of my goals because I always begin my designs by thinking about the final use if the font,” he says. “I worry about this a lot, so I do thousands of tests before launching the final font to ensure high quality standards and full satisfaction for final users.”

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