Gestura, a Modern Serif Revelation
I curate type work for brands that demand voice, clarity, and character. Gestura fuses sixteenth century old style heritage with calligraphic warmth, creating anchored letterforms and teasing modern tension. Joe Leadbeater and Diana Ovezea steer a design that references Granjon, Carter, and Plantin, while refusing nostalgic replication. The result is a serif system that balances editorial discipline with human feeling. It is ready to carry long reads and arresting covers. Designers seeking a robust expressive family will find meticulous craft, generous counters, and razor aware details. It rewards typographic discipline.
Gestura spans three optical sizes, Display, Headline, and Text, tuned for reading distances. It ships as forty two styles across seven weights, Thin to Black. Each cut contains more than nine hundred glyphs, ready for complex publishing systems and multilingual use. Upright cuts marry graceful curves with wedge like terminals that define crisp negative space. Italics flip geometry toward broad nib calligraphy, injecting rhythmic velocity into line color. The Display grades emphasize high contrast and sharp serifs, while Text grades reinforce legible stems and open apertures. From book jackets to dense essays, the family performs with authority and readable nuance.
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