modern display font with uncial and calligraphic influences
About Unzyale
The Unzyale typeface is born from long-term calligraphic experiments with a broad nib pen. Initially started as a modern interpretation of the Unzialschrift, the final alphabet is rather a mix of other traditional handwriting and free forms. The letters are unified by a common angle, balanced proportions and high contrast.
Even though beeing an All Caps font, Unzyale has plenty of glyphs to play around with. Besides fancy ligatures and alternate swash caps, there're diacritics, punctuation and many symbols in an alternative, monolinear style, reducing the calligraphic influence and bringing in a modern vibe.
Although Unzyale is designed purely as a display typeface, it comes in three optical sizes differing in contrast, form and spacing. It can therefore be used in various ways; full-frame or as a graphic pattern, as a headline or punctual highlight, or in smaller sizes next to a neutral text typeface.
- ▸Released in 2019
- ▸Small, Medium, Large
- ▸Latin Extended-A
- ▸749 Glyphs
- ▸Variable Font
Please note that this preview font only includes basic upper- and lowercase letters as well as standard figures. No kerning and OpenType features are included. Please see reference images or the specimen PDF for full functionality.
OpenType-Features
Unzyale comes with fancy ligatures, various swash letters and a huge stylistic set: This changes the look of diacritics, punctuation and many symbols from strictly calligraphic shapes to a modern, monolinear style.
- ▸Stylistic Set for monolinear style
- ▸Standard Ligatures
- ▸Stylistic Alternates
- ▸Contextual Alternates
- ▸Slashed Zeros
Language Support
Thanks to the coverage of the Latin-Extended-A Unicode range, Unzyale supports most modern Latin languages. Actually, containing some additional accented glyphs, you can use Unzyale in 215 languages. If you still think your language isn't supported, you can look up the full list below or in the specimen.
- Complete list of supported languages
Abenaki • Afaan Oromo • Afar • Afrikaans • Albanian • Alsatian • Amis • Anuta • Aragonese • Aranese • Aromanian • Arrernte • Arvanitic (Latin) • Asturian • Atayal • Aymara • Bashkir (Latin) • Basque • Belarusian (Latin) • Bemba • Bikol • Bislama • Bosnian • Breton • Cape Verdean Creole • Catalan • Cebuano • Chamorro • Chavacano • Chichewa • Chickasaw • Cimbrian • Cofán • Cornish • Corsican • Creek • Crimean Tatar (Latin) • Croatian • Czech • Danish • Dawan • Delaware • Dholuo • Drehu • Dutch • English • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Fijian • Filipino • Finnish • Folkspraak • French • Frisian • Friulian • Gagauz (Latin) • Galician • Ganda • Genoese • German • Gikuyu • Gooniyandi • Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) • Guadeloupean Creole • Gwich’in • Haitian Creole • Hän • Hawaiian • Hiligaynon • Hopi • Hotcąk (Latin) • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Igbo • Ilocano • Indonesian • Interglossa • Interlingua • Irish • Istro-Romanian • Italian • Jamaican • Javanese (Latin) • Jèrriais • Kaingang • Kala Lagaw Ya • Kapampangan (Latin) • Kaqchikel • Karakalpak (Latin) • Karelian (Latin) • Kashubian • Kikongo • Kinyarwanda • Kiribati • Kirundi • Klingon • Kurdish (Latin) • Ladin • Latin • Latino sine Flexione • Latvian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Low Saxon • Luxembourgish • Maasai • Makhuwa • Malay • Maltese • Manx • Māori • Marquesan • Megleno-Romanian • Meriam Mir • Mirandese • Mohawk • Moldovan • Montagnais • Montenegrin • Murrinh-Patha • Nagamese Creole • Nahuatl • Ndebele • Neapolitan • Ngiyambaa • Niuean • Noongar • Norwegian • Novial • Occidental • Occitan • Onĕipŏt • Oshiwambo • Ossetian (Latin) • Palauan • Papiamento • Piedmontese • Polish • Portuguese • Potawatomi • Q’eqchi’ • Quechua • Rarotongan • Romanian • Romansh • Rotokas • Sami (Inari Sami) • Sami (Lule Sami) • Sami (Northern Sami) • Sami (Southern Sami) • Samoan • Sango • Saramaccan • Sardinian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbian (Latin) • Seri • Seychellois Creole • Shawnee • Shona • Sicilian • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Slovio (Latin) • Somali • Sorbian (Lower Sorbian) • Sorbian (Upper Sorbian) • Sotho (Northern) • Sotho (Southern) • Spanish • Sranan • Sundanese (Latin) • Swahili • Swazi • Swedish • Tagalog • Tahitian • Tetum • Tok Pisin • Tokelauan • Tongan • Tshiluba • Tsonga • Tswana • Tumbuka • Turkish • Turkmen (Latin) • Tuvaluan • Tzotzil • Uzbek (Latin) • Venetian • Vepsian • Volapük • Võro • Wallisian • Walloon • Waray-Waray • Warlpiri • Wayuu • Welsh • Wik-Mungkan • Wiradjuri • Wolof • Xavante • Xhosa • Yapese • Yindjibarndi • Zapotec • Zazaki • Zulu • Zuni
Glyph Set
Unzyale comes with 749 glyphs, covering the Latin Extended-A Unicode Range and various alternate shapes, arrows and dingbats for that high contrast, contemporary feeling.
To get an overview of the full glyph set, all styles, OpenType-Features and text samples you can download the specimen below.
Specimen & Trials
To get a complete overview of all features, the glyph set and range of cuts you can download the specimen. It is designed to work not only for information on screen, but to be printed out to get an impression of appearence in different sizes on paper.
You can also go straight to testing the typefaces in your favorite layout program: Our test fonts package can be downloaded for free and contains all of our previously published typefaces!