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Cholla

Cholla™

by Emigre
Individual Styles from $49.00 USD
Complete family of 20 fonts: $379.00 USD
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Cholla Font Family was designed by Sibylle Hagmann and published by Emigre. Cholla contains 18 styles and family package options.

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Cholla Complete Family

 20 fonts

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Per Style:

$18.95 USD

Pack of 20 styles:

$379.00 USD

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Cholla Slab Set

 8 fonts

Per Style:

$22.50 USD

Pack of 8 styles:

$180.00 USD

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Cholla Unicase + Wide Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$35.00 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$210.00 USD

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Cholla Sans Set

 6 fonts

Per Style:

$25.00 USD

Pack of 6 styles:

$150.00 USD

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Cholla Slab Ultra Bold + Oblique

 2 fonts

  • Cholla Slab UltraBold Cholla Slab UltraBold

  • Cholla Slab UltraBold Oblique Cholla Slab UltraBold Oblique

Per Style:

$24.50 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$49.00 USD

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About Cholla Font Family

The Cholla typeface family was designed by Sibylle Hagmann in 1998-99 and named after a species of cactus she encountered in the Mojave Desert. Cholla was originally developed for the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. There, art director Denise Gonzales Crisp and associate designer, Carla Figueroa, collaborated with Hagmann to create a series of fonts that would offer a great deal of variation. The variety was needed to echo the school's nine different departments, yet together the fonts had to exude a unified feel. It was first used in the radically designed 1999/2000 Art Center catalog which won a honorable mention in I.D. magazine and was featured in Eye No. 31. Originally Hagmann set out to design a typeface that, as she recalls, "I could feel comfortable making, first of all, and one that would serve a purpose and had a clear idea behind it, and something that I would want to use myself." Stylistically Hagmann set out to create "12 cuts with slightly different personalities, with different ideas applied. For example the bold weight isn't simply the Regular with weight gain, but has bold letterforms with their own peculiar details. What all weights share and what is the necessary unifying detail is the tapered curve - marked out, for example, in the lowercase b's left top and bottom of the bowl." Gonzales adds: "The forms seemed classical as well. This combination could have a long life, and be timely. I also saw - at least in the beginnings of Cholla - forms that connoted hybrid, of inter-connection, of human and machine growing together. These notions seem appropriate for a school that teaches design and art." Greek version by Panos Haratzopoulos.

Designers: Sibylle Hagmann

Publisher: Emigre

Foundry: Emigre

Original Foundry: Emigre

Design Owner: Emigre

MyFonts debut: Oct 2, 2006

Cholla™ is a trademark of Emigre.

About Emigre

Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer Emigre were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology. From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. Emigre created some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs winning them both world-wide acclaim and much criticism. The exposure of these typefaces in Emigre magazine eventually lead to the creation of Emigre Fonts, one of the first independent type foundries utilizing personal computer technology for the design and distribution of fonts. They created the model for hundreds of small foundries who followed in their footsteps.

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