Drika Typeface: 14-Weight Expressive Sans by Ana Laydner

Ana Laydner designed the Drika typeface, a Brazilian expressive sans spanning 14 weights from hairline to extra-bold. The letterforms intentionally overlap, creating collisions that range from subtle proximity at light weights to full impact at heavy ones. Fabio Haag Type added Drika to its exclusive library, which curates typefaces from Brazil that perform across editorial, identity, poster, and brand system applications. The foundry prioritizes faces that work under real design conditions, from captions to large-format headlines. Drika's raw, unguarded aesthetic avoids smoothing over letter junctions, offering directness that editorial and brand contexts require when neutrality reads as absence. The typeface maintains its structural integrity across all weights without becoming a different face at either extreme.