2018 Winner
Typeface Design
Pelago
Pelago
Category—Typeface Design
2018 Winner
Typeface Design
Pelago
Designer(s)
Robert Slimbach, San Jose, California
Additional Credits
WEBSITE: fonts.adobe.com/fonts/pelago
TWITTER: @AdobeType
FOUNDRY: Adobe Systems
MEMBERS OF THE TYPE FAMILY: Pelago Regular, Pelago Light, Pelago Light Italic, Pelago Light Text, ItalicPelago Italic, Pelago Medium, Pelago Medium Italic, Pelago Semibold, Pelago Semibold Italic, Pelago Bold, Pelago Bold Italic
CONCEPT:
Pelago is a semiformal sans serif type family with a crisp, contemporary appearance and an understated elegance. At display sizes Pelago exhibits subtly swelling stroke endings, animated letter counter shapes, and a moderate degree of stroke modulation— qualities derived from both humanist handwriting and Roman inscriptional lettering. At smaller type sizes these expressive
accents recede, revealing a clear and readable text face that doesn’t suffer from
the structural rigidity found in conventional sans serif designs.