Lisbeth

Designed by Louisa Fröhlich. Released 2017.

Louisa Fröhlich’s Lisbeth is the charming all-italic trailblazer that handles branding and text with internal vividness. With no roman style, it’s an italic-only family whose creation was guided by imagination instead of restrictive writing tools.

Read more about the background and development of Louisa Fröhlich’s Lisbeth in our blog here.

Umfrage: Welcher Cocktail Typ sind Sie?

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Club, Hotelbar, Pool oder Dinner-Party? Unschuldig süß, erfrischend sauer, herausfordernd herb oder abstrakt avantgardistisch?

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Ein paar Beispiele gefällig? Während Martini-Connaisseurs auch abseits der Bar erwachsene Eleganz zelebrieren, begegnen Fans fruchtig-flirtiger Piña Coladas dem Leben meist wunderbar gelassen – sie machen locker das Beste aus jeder Situation. Extrovertierte Kosmopoliten lieben das Großstadtflair eines Cosmopolitans, Manhattans begeistern Traditionalisten mit Klasse, unkonventionelle Querdenker experimentieren mit Shrubs und verspielte Energiebündel scheuen sich nicht, gleich eine ganze Runde Sex on the Beach zu ordern.

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Angesichts der schieren Vielfalt verschiedener Cocktail-Varianten können wir hier natürlich nicht das gesamte schillernde Drinks-Spektrum aufrollen, doch als kleinen Auftakt zum Thema haben sich unsere Profi-Mixologen vier Cocktails herausgesucht, die bestimmte Vorlieben und Eigenschaften wunderbar (lecker) auf den Punkt bringen. Also: mixen Sie los – und finden Sie Ihren ganz persönlichen Cocktail-Begleiter!

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The Backstory

Lisbeth

A shimmering all-italic trailblazer with a sociable voice and twisting display.

Louisa Fröhlich’s Lisbeth is the charming all-italic trailblazer that handles branding and text with internal vividness. With no roman style, it’s an italic-only family whose creation was guided by imagination instead of restrictive writing tools. Some type families aren’t sure what they want. Lisbeth proceeds with the utmost confidence on its own terms — it’s a feisty three-dimensional thespian amidst the cast of strait-laced characters you’re used to.

With branding and magazine usage in mind, Lisbeth addresses the distinct challenges of text and display in a characterful way. The curves of the text weights show a soft angularity, emphasising the handwritten quality and the subtle twist inside the letters. The stroke’s carefully balanced contrast is more pronounced in the vibrant heavier weights but almost absent in the graceful structure of the thin weight. The angle of the letters is almost upright and the x-height is relatively large, so longer texts can be read comfortably and without effort. Lisbeth is slightly condensed and so uses a smaller area to efficiently impart much information. So if a type design can be thought of as the clothing letters wear, then Lisbeth is an energetic, freely flowing stroke wrapped around practical and efficient letter proportions.

Another highlight of the family is the quirky high-contrast display style, easily catching every eye. The design concept of the twisted stroke shows at the extreme here and makes the letters dance a little on the page. Even though the shapes behave wildly, every letter is carefully balanced in itself so that the rhythmic repetition of the lettershapes results in an even and harmonic total picture.

Lisbeth’s five text weights (from thin to bold) perform excellently in text settings, and its funky display style amps up the internal shimmer within each glyph. It supports numerous languages (Latin-A extended) and comes with ligatures and contextual alternates to produce beautiful typography. The character set contains proportional lining and oldstyle figures, tabular figures, subscripts, superscripts, and fractions. The complete Lisbeth family, along with our entire catalogue, has been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.

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