Sirba is a friendly, low-contrast serif that’s warm and even in complex settings. It was designed for use in demanding environments such as dictionaries, academic texts, annual reports, novels, and magazines. As such, Sirba includes a full set of IPA symbols for phonetic pronunciation and coverage for the Greek and Cyrillic scripts.
La foto del Che: Alberto Kora
Sólo dos negativos tomó al comandante Ernesto Guevara el fotógrafo Korda aquel algo frío marzo de 1960, en La Habana.
Click to EditAl pie de la tribuna, toda de luto, el ojo pegado a mi vieja Leica, fotografiaba a Fidel y a todos los que le rodeaban. De repente, frente al objetivo de 90mm surgió el Che. Me sorprendió su mirada…Por reflejo, disparé dos veces: una horizontal y otra vertical. No tuve tiempo de hacer una tercera porque se había estirado discretamente a la segunda fila.
En el verano del 67 el editor italiano Giangiacomo Feltrinelli llega al estudio habanero de Korda. Lo ha enviado Haydée Santamaría, presidenta de la Casa de las Américas. Buscaba unas fotos del Che y Korda le obsequia dos copias de la foto tomada en 1960.
En octubre muere el Che y Feltrinelli imprime mi foto en un cartel de un metro por 70. Se dice que vendió un millón de ejemplares en seis meses. La foto de Korda se convierte en mito. Impresiona por su hieratismo, con su chaqueta verde oliva cerrada, con su boina negra y la estrella dorada. Se advierte en su mirada la cólera reconcentrada por aquellas muertes, hay una impactante fuerza en su expresión.
Es la foto que se lleva a las manifestaciones, a las protestas, aparece publicada en cientos de artículos, en banderas, en posters. Korda, quien posee unas 400-500 fotos del Che, ha realizando en los últimos años exposiciones en Europa y América Latina.
A low-contrast serif that is warm and even in complex settings.
Sirba is Nicolien van der Keur’s low-contrast, high-functioning serif family. Sirba was designed with a friendly personality specifically to serve the high demands of complex text environments like dictionaries, academic texts, annual reports, novels, and magazines. Sirba’s design was guided by in-depth research of letterpress printed Bibles and dictionaries, particularly concerning readability in small point sizes.
Sirba has a classic touch revealed by its beauty in such design details as the asymmetrical bottom serifs, curved bracketing, and terminals with calligraphic undertones. Because of its open counters, large x-height, and short ascenders and descenders, it provides a pleasant reading experience and high legibility even in texts of demanding scope. Furthermore, annual reports and tables benefit from the low cap height and consistent width of the tabular numerals between the weights.
Sirba is available in the four basic styles plus a Black version, which is unique in that its proportions are designed so the counters remain prominent enough for excellent legibility when set in very small text sizes. Since the stem width is twice as thick as the Regular weight, Sirba Black’s spacing and letter width are rather generous in comparison to other typefaces of the same weight. Much attention was given to the italic and roman as equal counterparts while designing the type family. The italic distinguishes itself just enough without creating unevenness when looking at the text as a whole. To get a sense of Sirba’s personality, look at the flame-like interrobang and question mark or the artistic paragraph and section symbols.
Sirba has five styles and its character set covers over 50 languages that use the Latin script, plus polytonic Greek (consultation by Irene Vlachou and Gerry Leonidas), a full set of IPA symbols for phonetic pronunciation, and support for Cyrillic, including Bulgarian alternates (consultation by Kiril Zlatkov). It also includes many OpenType niceties such as a set of arrows, ornaments, extended ligatures, small caps, five sets of numerals, and more. Taken together, these characteristics make Sirba a great choice for handling important information in an enjoyable way.
The complete Sirba family, along with our entire catalogue, has been optimised for today’s varied screen uses.
A refined serif newsface with distinctive character and clarity.
4 text styles and 4 headline styles
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
Editorial use, mainly newspaper text and headlines.
Small caps, 4 sets of figures, and arbitrary fractions.
A contemporary book and magazine font family with a soft and warm voice.
4 styles plus matching italics.
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
Photo magazines, books, promotional material.
Small caps, 5 sets of figures, fractions, ornaments, and arrows.
A rarity for screens: A serif family purposely created for long reading and superlative UI performance.
12 styles from Thin to Extrabold for Display and 8 styles for Text, plus a free Icon font.
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
User-Interfaces (UI), digital platforms, and intensive editorial use.
A highly legible and economic typeface, perfect for extended reading in editorials and newspapers.
Four text styles.
Latin script support for 100+ languages.
Editorial use, mainly newspapers.
Small caps, 5 sets of figures, fractions, ornaments and arrows.
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