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Sonrisa

Sonrisa™

by CastleType
Individual Styles from $29.00 USD
Complete family of 8 fonts: $232.00 USD
Sonrisa Font Family was designed by Jason Castle and published by CastleType. Sonrisa contains 8 styles and family package options.

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About Sonrisa Font Family


Sonrisa is a design that evolved from my sketches of the skeletal structure of Jakob Erbar’s Koloss, trying to discover its underlying essence without all the contrast and bulkiness of the original design. Sonrisa Thin was the resulting font, from which the other weights of the family were developed. Gentle curves, open counters, generous x-height, and sleekly tapered terminals give Sonrisa a very legible, modern, elegant appearance. When she saw the first draft of this typeface, the smile on my friend Jennifer’s face gave me the idea to call it “Sonrisa” (Spanish for “smile”). Jennifer, a clinical psychologist, described Sonrisa’s personality as: "happy, clean, clear, open, joyful, spacious, playful, calm. I can see it being used for body product lines such as oils and lotions. Can see it being used in home/travel magazines or even Architectural Digest. Yoga magazine, definitely." Sonrisa is what some foundries call a “Pro” typeface family with all the bells and whistles that provide typographic versatility: true small caps, oldstyle numerals, arbitrary fractions, discretionary ligatures, and other powerful OpenType features. All fonts in the family, except Sonrisa Titling, support most European languages, including modern Greek and languages that use the Cyrillic Alphabet. (Cyrillic glyphs designed in consultation with Ukrainian type designer, Sergiy S. Tkachenko.) Sonrisa is available in the original Thin, monoline version as well as six weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra Bold, Black), and a Titling font that is essentially a display font construction kit. If you enjoy using Sonrisa even half as much as I enjoyed creating it, then I know you will have a “sonrisa” (smile) on your face!

Designers: Jason Castle

Publisher: CastleType

Foundry: CastleType

Design Owner: CastleType

MyFonts debut: Mar 10, 2011

Sonrisa™ is a trademark of CastleType.

About CastleType

CastleType, an independent digital type foundry, with “some of the best display fonts available” (MacBible, 4th Edition), has been supplying designers with quality fonts since 1990. With over 100 fonts in 50 font families, CastleType has a very diverse collection, including many art deco revivals, classic type styles inspired by ancient sources, non-alphabetic decorative fonts, as well as many CastleType Originals. CastleType also does custom type design. Clients have included Chevron Corporation, Shiseido, Rolling Stone Magazine, etc.

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