Caravela

Caravela is a decorative formal typeface. It was designed, drawn, and realized by Mans Greback in 2020. Inspired by 17th-century typographic works, this work lifts some of the absolute best elements from the golden age of calligraphic lettering, bringing it to life in a new, modern setting.

The fusion results in a typeface that works perfectly for a present-day headline, logotype, or invitation, while keeping the traditions and formality inherited from history. It contains several alternate alphabets, a great set of ligatures, and hundreds of contextual functions, which combined make the writing appear as a true handpainted piece of art. Swashes can be accessed by writing swash1, swash2, swash3, etc.

The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and has a guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, and more features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from Northern Europe to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Styles

• RegularCaravela Regular

Technical

Glyphs

812 · 389 characters

Formats

OTF

OpenType features

Kerning, Standard ligatures, Contextual alternates, Stylistic alternates, Swashes, Fractions

Language support

Latin: Western European, Central European, Baltic, Turkish

Version

1.000