Bely.a typeface story Balance. Striking. Experimental. Released by TypeTogether in 2016, Bely is a luxurious, sophisticated spin on the classic serif style containing four text weights that ensure ease of legibility. As a classic serif Bely Text features beautifully balanced capitals. The family also includes Bely Display, a bold and expressive French-style inspired display weight which experiments with the balance of stroke contrast and both triangular and rectangular shape. Bely Display is an excellent weight for larger sizes with its striking angled and high stroke contrast. Bely includes the Latin A Extended glyph set as well as its two text weights, matching italics, and unique display style. Bely’s OpenType features allow for typographic exploration as it offers small caps, both tabular and proportional lining and old-style figures, ligatures, alternate characters, case-sensitive variants, and fractions. Since its creation in 2016, Bely has won the following awards: the TypeTogether’s Typeface Publishing Incentive Programme scholarship (2014), the French magazine Étapes for the Diploma Issue (2014), the “TransFormations” exhibition at Centre Pompidou in France (2014), and the SOTA catalyst Award (2016).
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