Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats available upon request
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Giorgio
mudTyper+Weights
Example+About
Licensing
Christian Schwartz
2008
8 fonts
♥ Village exclusive
About Giorgio
"Originally commissioned by Chris Martinez at T, The New York Times Style Magazine, for tall and stylish headlines, Giorgio was intended to capture the particular moment in fashion towards the end of the current decade. A few of the overarching themes he wanted the typeface to embody included intricate tailoring, a slender silhouette, quirky minimalism and a look back to the 1930s. Giorgio takes many of its cues from Imre Reiner's late 1930s typeface Corvinus, but its mix of extremely high contrast, hard geometry, and strange, pretty details give it a distinctive character of its own, and an extensive set of alternates gives the face additional flexibility for fine-tuning a logotype or headline.
"Because the contrast between thick and thin is so extreme, this family is offered in 4 versions for different sizes. For normal use with offset printing, we recommend using Small from 24 point up to about 45 point, Medium up to about 70 point, Large up to about 90 point, and XLarge for anything above 90 point, where its delicate serifs and hairlines look their best; however, for screenprinting, reversing out of a colored background, or on-screen use (to name just a few exceptions), these guidelines may not necessarily apply."
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, romanised Belarusian, Bislama, Breton, Bosnian, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Four separate "grades" for different point sizes
// Alternate versions of: A C G K M Q R W a b c d e g h k m n q t u w and y (with all accents)
// Additional alternate italic versions of: f g and eszet (with all accents)
// Prebuilt fractions in quarters, thirds, and half
// Common mathematical symbols
// Basic ligatures: fi fl
// Alternate italic versions of ligatures: fi fl
Note that Giorgio ships in cross-platform OpenType PS format only.