Font Release: Sveva v2

New System, More Weights, More Freedom

In 2003, I designed the first version of Sveva - Sveva Versal. I was playing with the new possibilities of the Opentype font features. I was able to include many crazy letter combinations.

Looking back, I feel this font was more of a ?quick fix?. It was drawn and developed in just two months. Nevertheless, it still pleases its users today and is often used for book titles, especially for children, young adult and fantasy books.

Over time, I was often annoyed by the fact that the Sveva Versal is not quite logically constructed and also very often seemed too thin.

Since about 2020, with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the font in mind, I've been working on a new Sveva alphabet with more consistent and logical letters. The whole same drawn from thin to very bold. When the alphabet and the numerals were ready at the beginning of 2022, I worked intensively on the new weights of Sveva. The new bolder font weights now work better on background images.

Titles set in Sveva Versal cannot be flawlessly replaced with the new Sveva simply by switching the font style. But I am very sure that you can create similarly exciting titles.

Set fantastic headlines and have fun!

More info: www.astype.de/sveva