A ten-weight humanist sans-serif with matching obliques and an extensive set of OpenType features including small capitals, figure variants and stylistic alternates.
About
Ardena spans ten weights from Thin to Heavy, each accompanied by an oblique, giving twenty styles in total. OpenType support is thorough, covering old-style and lining figures, proportional and tabular spacing, fractions, ordinals, small capitals and multiple single-character alternates for a, g, l, u and the ampersand. The family is suited to sustained text setting as well as display use across the weight range.
Classification
The weight range, oblique variants and alternate glyph set suggest a humanist sans-serif with a broad family structure. The inclusion of alternates for a, g, l and u points to humanist letterform roots.