What is the Pobla font?
Optimum readability in small bodies with scarce interlining, under poor printing conditions such as in newspapers, where velocity and bad quality’s irregular surface papers, truly distort strokes was the challenge taken. Pobla was designed with this in mind, hence Patau present a hybrid between the conventional strokes of a serif’s classical roman type and markedly “fractured” forms inside, providing a unique personality to this typographic family, where calligraphic’s humanistic axis is visibly broken with the straight axis of the fabricated letters. More…
Subtle details in the serifs, give it a modern look to a classic skeleton. Very pronounced ink traps get the shapes rounded in the printed product to artificially increase the average medium-eye and promote reading in the small sizes it was designed for.
An absolutely handwriting look for the italics, where the rupture of the stroke marks a white’s subtle change to only whisper in the printing surface a slight difference, but without fuss and so not to break the rhythm of reading.
And as we are used to, a complete set of OpenType features, where you will find small caps, fractions, ligatures, old numerals and tabular, discretionary ligatures and support for 220 languages; and all available in twelve weights to meet the needs of any newspaper printing.
Pobla Font families
The Pobla includes the following font families:
- Pobla Light
- Pobla Light Italic
- Pobla Book
- Pobla Book Italic
- Pobla
- Pobla Italic
- Pobla Demi Bold
- Pobla Demi Bold Italic
- Pobla Bold
- Pobla Bold Italic
- Pobla Heavy
- Pobla Heavy Italic
Pobla Preview
Here is a preview of how Pobla will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
