Merguda Serif

Merguda Serif is a decorative display serif with curlicued capitals and a generous old-style rhythm.

The capitals do most of the talking — they swing through wide curlicues that loop back into the body of the letter, while the lowercase keeps a steadier, more even pace so the caps have somewhere to land. Strokes are confidently weighted, the serifs cupped, the negative spaces left enough air that the letters never feel crowded. It reads less like a contemporary revival and more like the kind of face you'd find on the title page of a book printed two centuries ago and kept on a shelf since.

It is the kind of lettering you can picture set in deep ink on the program of an opera you have never heard, or stamped in gold leaf along the spine of a book you'd take down for the cover alone.

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

Designed and created by Mans Greback.

Styles

• RegularMerguda Serif Regular
• BoldMerguda Serif Bold
• Bold ItalicMerguda Serif Bold Italic
• ItalicMerguda Serif Italic

Technical

Glyphs

844 · 729 characters

Formats

OTF

OpenType features

Kerning, Standard ligatures, Discretionary ligatures, Fractions, Oldstyle figures, Lining figures, Tabular figures, Case-sensitive forms, Ordinals, Superscript, Subscript, Localized forms, 2 stylistic sets

Language support

Latin: Western European, Central European, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Vietnamese

Version

1.000