Violant Family

Design: Carine de Wandeleer.

I look for inspiration everywhere, store brands, magazines, art, on the street... Walking through Valencia, I found on a wall, a beautiful and huge graffiti in which the artist had drawn a very special calligraphic. I immediately thought it would be a good base to design, which would later become the Violant font, a typeface that refers to Gothic calligraphy, with my own style… In addition, it could be a good tribute to Queen Violant, wife of Jaume 1st, king of Aragon, a woman of strong character, who supported her husband in the conquest of Valencia in 1238. Probably, Violant read texts in Gothic letters. Gothic, which in Castile and Aragon, was subjected to a stylisation process.

Violant family has two variables, Violant Regular and Violant Italic. Each font contain 736 glyphs, including a full set of OpenType features: swashes for all glyphs, stylistics sets, stylistics alternates, a lot of ligatures and a generous set of ornaments to play with your texts. This OpenType features may only be accessible via OpenType-aware applications, or the Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor/app.