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Dupioni

Dupioni is a modern display serif font with distinctive details, designed for fashion, editorial typography, branding and expressive headlines.

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How to Pair Fonts: A Practical Guide to Font Pairing

How to Pair Fonts: A Practical Guide to Font Pairing

Pairing typefaces is mostly about finding the right balance between similarity and contrast. The fonts need enough in common to feel intentional together, but enough difference to give each one a clear role.

How to access ligatures

How to access ligatures

Ligatures can change the feel of a word, but finding them isn’t always obvious. This guide shows how to easily access standard and discretionary ligatures in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Figma, Affinity Designer and Canva.

Designing Vietnamese Support for Dupioni

Designing Vietnamese Support for Dupioni

Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet, but with a beautiful system of accents, hooks, dots, and stacked marks. While working on Dupioni, I wanted those characters to feel like part of the design, not an afterthought.