Alda
Emigre · Berton Hasebe · 2008
serifhumanist serifitalic
A humanist text serif by Berton Hasebe, released through Emigre in 2008 in three weights with matching italics.
About
Alda offers three weights – Light, Regular and Bold – each paired with a corresponding italic, giving designers a compact but functional family for editorial and book work. Designed by Berton Hasebe, it sits within the humanist serif tradition, prioritising readability over stylistic novelty. The six individual styles can be purchased separately or as roman and italic packages.
Classification
A humanist serif with classical proportions, designed with attention to optical refinement and text legibility. The combination of roman and italic packages suggests a typeface intended for sustained reading use.
Weights
LightRegularBold
Languages
Latin
Tags
humanistseriftextlegibleeditorialclassicalbook