Dilbero Font Family

Dilbero Font Family is a family of virtually monolinear serif fonts for use in editorial work. Its letterforms feature tiny serifs designed in the incised style. Although that serif type originated in stone-carved inscriptions, Dilbero is anything but traditional in terms of its graphic language. The typeface’s contemporary style is visible in its most unique letterforms: ‘C’, ‘J’, ‘M’, and ‘S’ in the uppercase, and ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘f’, ‘g’, ‘j’, ‘q’, ‘r’, and ‘y’ in the lowercase. These letters’ exact characteristics include somewhat closed apertures (‘a’), outward-facing diagonal terminals (‘C’, ‘J’, ‘S’, ‘a’, ‘f’, ‘j’, ‘r’, and ‘y’), simplified joins without spurs (‘b’), and surprisingly open shapes (‘C’, ‘M’, ‘S’, and ‘g’).Aside from those memorable design elements, Dilbero is characterized by its large x-height, which further enhances the family’s readability at all text sizes. With ascenders that rise slightly above the heights of Dilbero’s capital letters and numerals, text set with the typeface retains a traditional word image, despite some less-traditional letter shapes. Dilbero’s almost monolinear strokes are thinned where necessary to keep the paragraph’s color even. For instance, the bottom of the bowl on the lowercase ‘a’ thins when meeting the vertical. A similar thinning is visible on the ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘g’, ‘m’, ‘n’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘r’, and ‘u’. However, the uppercase letters retain their monolinearity virtually everywhere, aside from their serifs. The numerals contain some degree of stroke thinning, but mostly just in the ‘6’, ‘8’, and ‘9’.