Fadista is an eccentric experimental typeface, inspired by the portuguese fado music and letterings by the artist Stuart Carvalhais (1887–1961), created throughout the 1920ies and 1930ies. A strong and clean presence with a touch of quirky gives the typeface its overall character. Fadista includes various opentype features that allow tailoring the type to custom needs, encouraging graphical exploration. Fadista is the result of meticulous research, graphic reinterpretation and systematisation of the glyph palette, taking into account modern font standards. Balancing between a historic heritage and „hipster" contemporary looks, Fadista represents a discourse about aesthetics, trends and currentness in graphic design. The stylistic variations of the glyphs in fadista work in an additive fashion, rather than completely altering the look of the typeface. This means that a basic framework of glyphs remains unaltered, while certain subgroups of characters are affected by the style choices. Through this behaviour, stylesets in fadista work as a switch for the type of contrast you'd like entwined in the overall look of the typeface.

Other unique features include stylistic alternates for specific glyph combinations, ligatures that allow internal character spacing and tiny diacritics that flow within cap height along normal height glyphs and were spaced & kerned especially for this purpose. Please note the lowercase characters within Fadista are uppercase alternates. Math operators are fully supported, als well as a wide range of symbols and punctuation.

Languages Supported: Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Malagasy, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romansh, Spanish, Swedish. For further language support don‘t hesitate to get in touch.

Fadista was awarded the Art Directors Club Award 2014 in the category „Future" and the DDC Award 2014 in the category