The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Vidaloka
A free single-weight Didone display serif from Cyreal with curled drops and sloped terminals, built for headlines.
About Vidaloka
Vidaloka is a Didone display serif released by the Russian foundry Cyreal in 2011 and designed by Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina. It follows the classic Didone recipe of vertical stress, thin hairlines and heavy verticals, but the detailing is deliberately softer than a textbook Bodoni: ball terminals curl inward, stroke endings are cut at a slope rather than square, and the Q carries a flourished tail with a baroque feel. The result is a face with the formality of a Didone and a touch of ornament that keeps it from feeling cold.
It is a single regular weight with Latin coverage, and the foundry recommends it from about 16px upward because the hairlines thin out at small sizes. That makes it a headline and short-copy font: magazine titles, posters, product names, pull quotes and fashion or beauty branding. In practice it stands in where a designer would otherwise license Bodoni, Didot or another high-contrast display serif, and it is free under the SIL Open Font License.
- Designer
- Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina
- Released
- 2011
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