Informations

Paraiso is a condensed display typeface with a constructed feel. Although influenced by 19th and early-20th century wood faces, Paraiso's design is a fantasised reconstruction, straying away from nostalgia and precise historical references. Evoking a set of building cubes, this display typeface finds warmth in the regularity and somewhat comforting tightness of its rhythm.
The Paraiso family is coherent but not linear. It was designed as a limited but versatile palette for striking headlines or poster layouts, its blocky letterforms naturally calling for compact leading and big sizes.



Family

7 styles

Release year

2022

Notes on design


→ PDF Specimen
→ Type tester
→ Information
→ In use
→ Character set
→ OpenType features

7 styles

Thin

  

Light

  

Regular

  

Bold

  

Heavy

  

Sans

  

Sans Italic

  
Ruler and drawing template (photo: Czeva, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cast iron radiator (photo: Alan Levine, CC BY 2.0)
Beach ball (photo: Susan Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Information

Design

Lucas Descroix

Release year

2022

Font formats

OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Glyph count

ca. 900 glyphs

Coverage

Extended Latin (incl. Vietnamese)

For more information on the character set and language coverage, please have a look at the PDF specimen.

In use

‘In the Dirt’ exhibition
In the Dirt exhibition
'Blueprints of Hope’, Octagon Gallery UCL
Blueprints of Hope, Octagon Gallery UCL
‘Le Théâtre, Récits de la Scène Nationale de Saint-Nazaire’
Le Théâtre, Récits de la Scène Nationale de Saint-Nazaire
‘Good Tape’ magazine, Issue 01
Good Tape magazine, Issue 01
‘Sphères’ magazine n.15
Sphères magazine n.15

OpenType features

EarthEarth

Alternate a (ss01)

SingerSinger

Alternate g (ss02)
JulyJuly
Alternate J (ss03)
(&Moon*)(&Moon*)
Normal-weight punct. (ss04)
Alt#3Alt#3
Small capitals (c2sc / smcp)
(@NDE)(@NDE)
Case-sensitive forms (case)

2Disc2Disc

Ordinals (ordn)

Emu200Emu200

Superscript (sups)

Vol38Vol38

Subscript (subs)
2/92/9
Fractions (frac)
20192019
Tabular figures (tnum)
19481948
Oldstyle figures (onum)