Albertina

Chris Brand
1964

Working designers should have at least one text family to focus on; to test its idiosyncrasies and stretch its limits, to see how it responds to the unpredictable demands of day-to-day work. Albertina is the family with which I do the most tinkering. It’s remarkably flexible, offering a full complement of text and titling figures, roman and italic small caps, as well as supplemental Greek and Cyrillic fonts.

It has the sort of strength, or presence on the page absent from most digital type, owing to sturdy construction, and it lacks fussiness.

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