What is the Maiola font?

Being inspired by early Czech type design, Maiola is clearly a contemporary typeface, that is mindful of its historical heritage, implementing old-style features and calligraphic reminiscence, more frankly so in the Italic. Nevertheless, through its personality, it attempts to create a welcoming tension on the page, without shouting too loudly at the reader. It handles its expressive tendencies with care and in doing so increases its usability, with legibility being of great importance. Subtle irregularities of the letterforms enhance furthermore the dynamic spirit and liveliness of the typeface. More… With the advent of Opentype, allowing for bigger character-sets and better language support, as a natural consequence, Maiola Multiscript covers Latin A, Cyrillic and Greek. Although basically independent from each other, they are, however, designed in the same spirit as the Latin, and harmonize well in multilingual text settings. The update to this beautiful font family includes the addition of over 240 glyphs featuring new ornaments, stylistic alternates, ligatures, superior letters, fractions and more. Furthermore, several glyphs were significantly improved and the kerning was fine tuned for better performance. Originally released in 2005, Maiola was an immediate success. It won the renowned TDC competition in 2004 where it was also recognized as a “judge’s choice”, was part of the touring exhibition e-a-t, and was selected in the Creative Review design competition in 2005.

Maiola Font families

The Maiola includes the following font families:

• Maiola
• Maiola Cyrillic Regular
• Maiola Greek Regular
• Maiola PE Regular
• Maiola Book
• Maiola Cyrillic Book
• Maiola Greek Book
• Maiola PE Book
• Maiola Book Italic
• Maiola Cyrillic Book Italic
• Maiola Greek Book Italic
• Maiola PE Book Italic
• Maiola Bold
• Maiola Cyrillic Bold
• Maiola Greek Bold
• Maiola PE Bold
• Maiola Italic
• Maiola Cyrillic Italic
• Maiola Greek Italic
• Maiola PE Italic
• Maiola Bold Italic
• Maiola Cyrillic Bold Italic
• Maiola Greek Bold Italic
• Maiola PE Bold Italic

Maiola Preview

Here is a preview of how Maiola will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.