Information
Heldane is a contemporary serif family inspired by the renaissance works of Hendrik van den Keere, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon and Simon de Colines. Rather than emulating a specific font, Heldane amalgamates the best details from these sources into a cohesive whole. The classical typographic foundations of Heldane are refined with rigorous digital drawing.
- Design
- Kris Sowersby
- Engineering
- Noe Blanco
- Ben Kiel
- Awards
- Tokyo TDC Annual Awards, Book Selection2019
- Best Awards, Design Craft, Gold Pin2019
- TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence2019
- Graphis Typography 4, Gold2018
- Specimens added to the Cooper Hewitt Collection2016
- Release date
- 2018
- Current version
- 1.002
- Classification
- Classical: Garalde/Oldstyle
- Font formats
- OTF DesktopWOFF2 WebTTF App
- OpenType features
- Ligaturesliga
- Contextual alternatescalt
- Lining numeralslnum
- Old-style numeralsonum
- Alt old-style 0ss01
- Alt Q (Roman)ss03
- Swash e (Italic)ss04
- Swash h (Italic)ss05
- Swash k (Italic)ss06
- Swash nm (Italic)ss07
- Swash y (Italic)ss08
- Swash z (Italic)ss09
- Swash caps (Italic)ss10
- Small capssmcp
- All small capsc2sc
- Discretionary ligaturesdlig
- Swashesswsh
- Fractionsfrac
- Capital formscase
- Glyph count
- 612 per Roman style713 per Italic style3,974 total
- Font styles
- 6
- Hinting
- Manual VTT hinting
- Kerning
- Manual kerning4,052 pairs per style
| Font name | File size |
|---|---|
| Heldane Display Regular | 51kb |
| Heldane Display Regular Italic | 62kb |
| Heldane Display Medium | 52kb |
| Heldane Display Medium Italic | 66kb |
| Heldane Display Bold | 51kb |
| Heldane Display Bold Italic | 65kb |