Della Respira

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Della Respira Regular

About Della Respira

Della Respira is a serif typeface that brings an early twentieth-century design back as a libre font. The official notes describe it as a revival of a typeface issued in 1913 by American Type Founders, which in turn followed a design by T. M. Cleland. The specimen shows inscriptional proportions: C, D, G, O and Q are almost circular, E, F and L are narrow, and the strokes vary little in thickness, ending in small flared serifs. The lowercase has tall ascenders above a modest x-height, an e with a tilted crossbar and a compact two-storey g, while the R kicks out a long straight leg. Nathan Willis is named in the copyright notice, which also reserves the font name. The single Regular style contains 296 glyphs in the Latin subset, enough for Western European languages, with French lacking only the rare capital Ÿ.

Where Della Respira works

Book covers and title pages

Wide round capitals in the classical manner give an author's name or title a formal, engraved look.

Menus and invitations

Low contrast and small flared serifs print cleanly on textured stock at heading sizes.

Arts and heritage posters

The design dates from 1913, which matches programmes for period music, theatre or exhibitions.

Short introductory paragraphs

The lowercase is complete, so a brief blurb can sit under a capitalised heading in the same face.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Della Respira

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Della Respira on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Della Respira";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DellaRespira-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Della Respira", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Della Respira with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Della+Respira&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Some typographic quotes are missing

The character set has the opening curly quotes but not the closing ones; the specimen shows an empty box for the closing double quote.

Basic Latin only

There is no Latin Extended subset. Languages such as Polish, Czech or Turkish are not fully covered.

One style

Della Respira has a single Regular style with no italic or bold.

FAQs

Collections with Della Respira

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

  Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

• Roman capital and inscriptional fonts for titles

  Capitals drawn after Roman inscriptions and flared lettering, for film-style titles, monograms, certificates and luxury branding.

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