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Pericles specimen from Matteson Typographics

A two-weight display face blending inscriptional letterform traditions with Art Deco sensibility, aimed at headlines, book titles and short decorative passages.

About

Pericles Pro offers Light and Regular weights, each containing 433 glyphs including 12 stylistic alternates and 17 ligatures. The family supports small capitals, petite small capitals, superscripts and subscripts, giving designers flexibility for headline and display work. Its character draws from carved inscription traditions as much as 1920s–30s decorative typography.

Classification

Pericles draws from inscriptional lettering traditions and Art Deco styling, making it a display typeface suited to headlines and short passages rather than continuous text. Its all-caps orientation, small capitals and stylistic alternates confirm its display classification.

Weights

LightRegular

Family

Pericles Pro

Languages

Latin

Tags

displayart-decoinscriptionalheadlinescapitalsdecorativeopentypeligatures