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Features
Default setting
Schoolbook a and g
Barred A
Looped Q
Stylistic alternates: Trilby contains a variety of stylistic alternates to keep things interesting, including single-story a and g with single-story schoolbook versions, a barred A, and a Q with a short, looped tail.
Short f: Replaces all instances of lowercase f with a short, nonkerning form. By default, this short f is substituted contextually only when necessary to avoid collisions.
Lowercase figures
Superiors
Inferiors
Fractions
Numbers: Trilby contains figures, math, and currency symbols with three-quarter height forms designed for text settings. It also has separately drawn superior digits and daggers, scientific inferiors, and numerators and denominators for arbitrary fractions.
Case-sensitive forms
www ligature
And more: Trilby has a whole bunch of other features that you might find handy, like case-sensitive punctuation a www ligature, alternate dashes, and true primes.
Licensing info
Licenses for Trilby are now available for purchase from The Font Bureau. Of course, feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
Additional links
- Trilby, available for licensing from The Font Bureau
- Font Bureau News: Trilby, ATypI, Interlínea, How We Read, & GD, Referenced
- I Love Typography: My Favorite Fonts of 2009
- The Experts Agree: Fonts of 2009
- Who Shot the Serif?, an excerpt from Allan Haley’s article in HOW Magazine
- Slab Happy: Trilby Reviewed, an article by Paul Shaw in the October 2010 issue of Print Magazine
- Through Thick and Thin, an article of mine about stress and contrast