Virgula Vulgaris

by Levi Szekeres

Character Set

2160 characters

Uppercase Letters

Lowercase Letters

Numbers

Punctuation

Size Waterfall

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Text Samples

Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

How vexingly quick daft zebras jump

Paragraph

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

Numbers

0123456789

2.718281828459045

9,876,543.21

Designer's Notes

Virgula Vulgaris (Common Comma in Latin) is meant to sum up the most usual forms of a serif font, avoiding styles and side-effects that would only come between the reader and the text.
On a personal level, the font represents another experiment with serifs, this time trying to be "politically correct" in every aspect, leaving the artistic ego behind. The first version created is bold to have a clear distinction between the thin and strong lines for future references. The number of glyphs get extended for the same reason, to see how each character would line up to the same design.
The font is extended to 2,161 glyphs and includes Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals, Fractions, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, IPA Extensions, Greek, Cyrillic, Latin Extended, Punctuation, Accents, Currency, Arrows, Decorative Elements, Special Characters.
A few of the open type features are the generated arrows, numerators, ligatures, small caps, stylistic alternates, fractions and slashed zeros.

Editor Specimen