Typeface Info
Xunga is a cheerful display typeface. My goal was to design a font able to fit any layout with boldness and playfulness, mixing a sign painter taste in the uppercase and some of my crappy calligraphic reverse contrast explorations with the flat brush for the lowercase.
I designed several of widths to fit the page, and though about a different way of expanding the family shifting the horizontal stress axis to move the letter weight in different heights, making a 15 fonts family, suitable for making bold layouts.
Xunga has an extended character set for European languages as well as Vietnamese, and shows all its potential with OpenType-savvy applications. Every font includes ligatures, catchwords in discretional ligatures, contextual alternates to avoid conflictive glyph pairs and localized forms to avoid problems with several glyphs and languages.
Although it wasn’t a conscious aesthetic inspiration, I think Xunga, which could be translated as Krappy, has also something to be with the old lettering art in my childhood comic books, somewhat naive and charming in its imperfection. Sometimes drawn by the artists themselves, sometimes by editorial staff, those whimsical letters were the first lettering I came across in my life. For me there’s a lot to learn from the old magazine’s unknown lettering workers skills and their unmistakable charm. Their history is yet to be written, isolated from the canonical history of Spanish modern design.
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Xunga 5 widths, 3 stress heights. 15 fonts
Glyphset 632 glyphs
Designed by Juanjo López
Year 2017
Styles
Xunga Condensed Top
Introdujésemos
Xunga Condensed Middle
Straßenrennen
Xunga Condensed Bottom
Procrastinators
Xunga Regular Top
Camaraderie
Xunga Regular Middle
Hydrolysates
Xunga Regular Bottom
Confisqueras
Xunga SemiExpanded Top
Cerclasses
Xunga SemiExpanded Middle
Coefficienti
Xunga SemiExpanded Bottom
Überfracht
Xunga Expanded Top
Margery
Xunga Expanded Middle
Esfumar
Xunga Expanded Bottom
Aankeek
Xunga UltraExpanded Top
Barbie
Xunga UltraExpanded Middle
Affiliez
Xunga UltraExpanded Bottom
Glared
Character Set
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789
Diacritics and foreign characters set
ÁĂẮẶẰẲẴǍÂẤẬẦẨẪÄẠÀẢĀĄÅǺÃÆǼĆČÇĈĊÐĎĐÉĔĚÊẾỆỀỂỄËĖẸÈẺĒĘẼĞǦĜĢĠĦĤIJÍĬǏÎÏİỊÌỈĪĮĨĴĶĹĽĻĿŁŃŇŅŊƝÑÓŎǑÔỐỘỒỔỖÖỌÒỎƠỚỢỜỞỠŐŌǪØǾÕŒÞŔŘŖŚŠŞŜȘẞƏŦŤŢȚÚŬǓÛÜǗǙǛǕỤÙỦƯỨỰỪỬỮŰŪŲŮŨẂŴẄẀÝŶŸỴỲỶȲỸŹŽŻ
áăắặằẳẵǎâấậầẩẫäạàảāąåǻãæǽćčçĉċðďđéĕěêếệềểễëėẹèẻēęẽəğǧĝģġħĥıíĭǐîïịìỉijīįĩȷĵķĸĺľļŀłńʼnňņŋɲñóŏǒôốộồổỗöọòỏơớợờởỡőōǫøǿõœþŕřŗśšşŝșßŧťţțúŭǔûüǘǚǜǖụùủưứựừửữűūųůũẃŵẅẁýŷÿỵỳỷȳỹźžż
Quotes, punctuation & symbols
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€¢¤$£¥+−×÷=≠><%‰
↑→↓←↔★◊@&¶§©®™°|¦†‡^
Catchwords
AND AS BY DAS DE DEM DEN DER DES DIE DU EL ELS ÈME ET FOR FROM GLI HET IL LA LAS LE LES LO LOS ND NO NOT OF OR OS SÍ ST TH THE TO VS. YES A O Y
Ligatures
fi fl ff fä fb ffb ffh ffi ffj fh fí fï fj fk fö fü ll rr EY FJ FY KA KT RA RT RZ TY VY WY
OpenType Features
gofio offer flow raffle
förhöja įjunk
AND → AND 4TH → 4TH VS. → VS.
ąfö įjunk → ąfö įjunk
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Here you can purchase Xunga for a desktop license.
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