Piazzolla
Designed By
Juan Pablo del Peral, HT Fonts
18 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Piazzolla · Regular
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18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Piazzolla ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Late edition: council votes 7 to 2
A Page In Piazzolla
Piazzolla · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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Newspapers are always short of space, and Juan Pablo del Peral built Piazzolla around that: a type system for press media and other publications where text has to sit small, with tight leading, and still form solid lines and firm paragraphs. Del Peral designed it for HT Fonts, the label of Huerta Tipográfica.
There is a second side to it. At display sizes the same letters show a personal, distinctive voice, and a newspaper could set both the dense columns and the headline above them in Piazzolla without the 2 looking like strangers.
The range is wide. 9 weights from Thin to Black, all with italics, so 18 styles, and the glyph set covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic with their extended forms plus Vietnamese, over 1,300 glyphs. The OpenType list fits newspaper work well: small caps, old style and lining figures, tabular figures for sports results and market tables, fractions, 4 stylistic sets.
Our suggestion is to try Light or Regular at small sizes, since a compact face can go darker than you expect when packed tight, and to save Thin and Black for headlines. The italic is somewhat narrower than the roman, a useful trait in narrow columns.
Characters & Figures
1,330 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Piazzolla
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 2.2 MB ↓- Version
- 2.005
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Use On A Website
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<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/piazzolla/piazzolla.css">
body {
font-family: 'Piazzolla', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Piazzolla Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.