QUENTO: A Didone Display Typeface for Editorial Headlines
QUENTO is a Didone display typeface designed by Kimmy Lee and Petros Afshar, built on extreme stroke contrast with hairline horizontals at 1–2pt optical weight against verticals near 90pt. The stress angle is true vertical (0°), distinguishing it from sloped oldstyle serifs. Ball terminals on letters like a, c, f, r, and y appear as optically centered teardrops, functioning as punctuation at headline scale. The design is presented in pure monochrome—black on white and white on black—to emphasize anatomy. With over 550 glyphs covering extended Latin, ligatures, and accents, QUENTO is a working display typeface for screen resolutions, not a decorative novelty. A free demo is available, and the full commercial release supports multilingual typesetting. The project is showcased on Behance.
Key facts
- QUENTO is a Didone display typeface by Kimmy Lee and Petros Afshar.
- Extreme stroke contrast: hairline horizontals at 1–2pt vs verticals near 90pt.
- True vertical stress angle (0°).
- Ball terminals on a, c, f, r, y as optically centered teardrops.
- Presented in pure monochrome (black/white).
- Over 550 glyphs including extended Latin, ligatures, accents.
- Free demo available; full commercial release supports multilingual typesetting.
- Project published on Behance.
Entities
Artists
- Kimmy Lee
- Petros Afshar
Institutions
- Behance