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Ladna is a grotesk-style typeface that doesn’t take itself too seriously and has a friendly presence through its slight quirks which it doesn’t bother hiding. The typeface interprets certain clumsiness of soviet-era enamel street signs found around Estonia, giving it a relaxed tone while not interrupting the reading experience too much. Ladna sits in the “workhorse” category of typefaces that can just as easily be used for headlines and running text. The word “Ladna” comes from the Russian “Ладно” which literally means “Okay” but is also used to describe something as alright/easy/simple/familiar etc.

Ladna Faux is the nihilist companion to Ladna that is blissfully unaware of optical correctness. Its italics are robust obliques of the normal styles and the faux upright styles were achieved by back-slanting true italics — a No-go zone considered by typography connoisseurs, but a suitable addition to a font family rooted in amateurism.

CREDITS
Igino Marini (Spacing and kerning)
ETDM (Support for Cyrillic language extension)

Designer

Andree Paat

Design year

2023

Languages

Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Embu, English, Erzya, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari-Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low-German, Lower-Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Macedonian, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Meru, Morisyen, North-Ndebele, Northern-Sami, Northern-Sotho, Norwegian-Bokmål, Norwegian-Nynorsk, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish-Gaelic, Sena, Serbian, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South-Ndebele, Southern-Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss-German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkmen, Upper-Sorbian, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Features

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