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The Seasons vs Joane
Two commercial high-contrast display serifs that trade on the same kind of fashion-magazine elegance. The Seasons, by Elena Genova for My Creative Land (2021), pairs sharply curved romans with calligraphic italics, while Joane, by Ale Navarro for W Type Foundry (2018), mixes French didone proportions with calligraphic endings and glyphic serifs, then multiplies that into engraved and deco variants.
The Seasons is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Cormorant, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to The Seasons → Joane is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Playfair Display, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Joane →
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- The Seasons is a compact family of six styles from Thin to ExtraBold, with companion italics based on humanistic scripts and drawn with a parallel pen, so its italic reads as a genuine calligraphic hand rather than a slanted roman.
- Joane ships 18 styles that include engraved and deco versions alongside the plain cuts, and its 2023 Joane Pro expansion grows that into a 78-plus-style system for layered, decorative lockups.
- The Seasons covers Extended Latin and Cyrillic and is available through Adobe Fonts, so Creative Cloud subscribers can use it without a separate purchase, whereas Joane is sold per style or as a family through MyFonts and Fontspring.
- Both are paid fonts: The Seasons lists at about $40 per style on Fontspring, and Joane at $25 per style or $180 for the full family, so licensing cost is a real factor for either choice.
The Seasons
Reach for The Seasons when you want one elegant serif with a true calligraphic italic for branding, logos, packaging, and invitations, especially if you already have Adobe Fonts.
Joane
Reach for Joane when a project needs a didone-flavoured display system with engraved and deco cuts for layered editorial or art deco headlines, and the family license fits the budget.