Designed by Robert Leuschke
Babylonica is a dry brush style with hand written calligraphic brush characteristics. It's italicized approach is sometimes interrupted by upright or even back-slanted forms giving it an interrupted stress. This stress gives Babylonica that truly hand lettered appeal.
It comes with Latin Character sets including Western, Central, and Vietnamese language support.
To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/babylonica.
Founder and CEO of TypeSETit, Rob Leuschke is a graphic designer, lettering artist and type designer based just outside of St. Louis, MO, USA. Spanning nearly four decades, Rob’s work has consisted mostly of producing lettering and graphics for packaging, logos, and social expression products.
When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.
Choosing web fonts: A beginner's all-in-one guide
A checklist for choosing type
Emotive considerations for choosing typefaces
Choosing reliable typefaces
Exploring typefaces with multiple weights or grades
Exploring width in type
Choosing typefaces that have optical sizes
Pairing typefaces
Pairing typefaces within a family & superfamily
Pairing typefaces by the same type designer or type foundry
Pairing typefaces using the font matrix
Exploring x-height & the em square
Adding fonts to Google Docs and Slides
