Vollda typeface is a free contemporary old-style text typeface with a business mood4 min read

Why the heck Vollda when we already have a high-quality Vollkorn typeface?

  • The original “a” of Vollkorn looked kinda playful and too bulky for my needs. So to add a more serious mood I redesigned “a” in a slightly Granjon style. Obviously, it led to editing “u,d,b,p,q” and then “n,m,h”.
  • Cyrillic “Кк, Жж, Яя” looked a way too historic (poluustav-ish) so I edited them to appear more contemporary and in the same time having more resemblance to the latin original “K, R”
  • Thirdly, cyrillic “б,ф” looked okay, but the their skeletons were a bit outdated, so I tweaked them a bit to get that modern feel.
  • And finally, I deleted internal rounded corners in Cyrillic “Пп, Дд, Лл, Цц, Щщ, Шш”, because those rounded corners might have appeared only during some old letter press printing. That is not what you get when you try to write them with an 6.0mm nib or print them on a laser printer.

Download Vollda at github.com/alexburba/vollda-typeface

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