Leyden
PSY/OPS Type Foundry · Lars Bergquist
A warm, legible serif by Lars Bergquist with extensive ligature support, small caps and a companion News variant optimised for compact, small-size typesetting on low-quality stock.
About
Leyden pairs a humanist serif with an accompanying black sans, offering a complete editorial toolkit with lowercase figures, ligatures and a dedicated smallcaps font. The Leyden News variant increases x-height and simplifies fine details to maintain legibility at small sizes on newsprint or indifferent paper. Twelve fonts in total cover regular, italic, bold and black weights, with special fonts adding extended numeral sets, fractions and additional ligatures.
Classification
A warm, legible serif with humanist proportions, lowercase figures, and a companion news variant optimised for small sizes on low-quality paper, suggesting an oldstyle or humanist serif tradition.