Liaisons

A Belle Époque humanist serif in two styles: crisp, high-contrast Haut-Monde and soft, low-contrast Demimonde.
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Categories

display

headline

humanist

serif

Supported Alphabets

Latin (Western Europe)

Cyrillic

Special Features

alternate characters

discretionary ligatures

ornaments

stylistic sets

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When you design a lot of display pieces, you’re often in need of tall, slim type. Liaisons provides that, in a distinct fin-de-siècle style inspired by the great posters of the Gilded Age from Sweden, Denmark, France, and Scotland. (The ampersand alone is a bit of a love letter to Charles Rennie Mackintosh!)

Both styles use the same slim skeleton, and are named after the stratum of society where one might find… a “dancing partner.”

  • HAUT-MONDE is a high contrast face of the sort that says “High Society.” Elegant and sleek, it speaks to the refinement of the moneyed classes of a bygone era. Great for high-end products, too!
  • DEMIMONDE is soft and low-contrast — more reminiscent of hand-lettering on Art Nouveau/Jugendstil/Wiener Werkstätte advertisements and posters. A comfortably chic display face all around!

Both typefaces feature full Western and Eastern Latin character sets, as well as full Cyrillic/Slavic ones.

And, perhaps best of all, both typefaces feature capitals with high, middle, and low waists, so you can change up the look as you see fit!

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