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The 19th-century French Clarendon, with its unorthodox reversed stress, never achieved the versatility of its sans and slab siblings. Trilby reins in this topsy-turvy style to transcend mere novelty as a useful face with offbeat charm and subtle wit. This series was listed as one of I Love Typography's favorite fonts of 2009.


Trilby typeface showing

Styles

Trilby styles

Sample text

Trilby text

Features

Schoolbook a and g

Single-story forms (stylistic set 1): Replaces default forms of a and g with single-story schoolbook versions.

Barred A

Barred A (stylistic set 2): Replaces default form of capital A with an alternate version with a bar on top.

Looped Q

Looped Q (stylistic set 3): Replaces default form of capital Q with an alternate version with a short, looped tail.

Short f

Short f (stylistic set 17): Replaces all instances of lowercase f with a short, nonkerning form. By default, this short f is substituted contextually only when necessary to avoid collisions.

Lowercase figures

Lowercase figures: Substitutes figures, math, and currency symbols with three-quarter height forms designed for text settings. Accessed as old-style figures.

Superiors

Superiors: Replaces digits and daggers with properly scaled and superscripted variants for footnotes and citations.

Inferiors

Scientific inferiors: Replaces digits with properly scaled and positioned scientific inferiors.

Fractions

Fractions: Replaces arbitrary fraction sequences with properly sized and positioned numerators and denominators.

Slashed zero

Slashed zero: Replaces the figure zero with a slashed variant.

Ligatures

Standard ligatures/contextual alternates: Substitute various versions of the letter f to avoid large gaps or collisions.

Discretionary Ligatures

Discretionary ligatures: Replaces the www sequence with a single ligature.

Case-sensitive forms

Case-sensitive forms: When all-caps styling is applied, punctuation such as parentheses, brackets, braces, dashes, guillemets, and opening question and exclamation marks are replaced with shifted forms.

Nominal dashes

Nominal dashes (stylistic set 18): Replaces default forms of em and en dashes with “true”, full-measure nominal forms without sidebearings.

Prime

Primes (stylistic set 19): Replaces single and double quotes with properly canted marks for minutes and seconds or feet and inches.