Malaga (Latin + Central European)

Designed by Xavier Dupré in 2007. More...

Xavier Dupré, the designer of the Malaga typeface family believes, like others, that within typeface design most legibility needs have been worked out and that today we are satisfying aesthetic desires. We design typefaces to differentiate our communications. Type design is primarily a formal exercise reflecting our personal quirks, technological obsessions, and cultural heritage.

In case of Dupré’s work, issues of cultural heritage and personal quirks are of particular consequence. An incessant traveler, he visited the following countries during the development of the Malaga type family: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, France, Belgium, and finally, Spain, where his choice for the name Malaga originates (Malaga is a port city in southern Spain).

Dupré’s home is where his laptop is. He travels with a 12- or 15 inch PowerBook, without a printer, and with sporadic access to his reference books and other historical documents. All he needs is a table and chair. He even learned to design without a mouse since hotel and cafe tables are often too small to also fit a mousepad.

Dupré is the new global designer who can take disparate influences and fluidly process the information into a coherent whole. Malaga is a case in point. It is inspired by ideas ranging from blackletter to Latin fonts, and from the Quattrocento’s first Venetian antiquas to brush stroke types. This makes Malaga a richly animated font saturated with unorthodox detail. Its black and bold weights are particularly suited for headlines and short texts, while the subtle modulation and moderate contrast in the regular and medium weights makes it perfectly readable in extended text settings.

While Malaga doesn’t claim to resolve any particular legibility issues, it is nonetheless perfectly readable and will impart any design with a healthy dose of visual character.

For more information about Malaga, download the free type specimen.


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Malaga CE Medium $69.00

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Malaga CE Medium Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Black $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Regular $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Regular Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Bold $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Bold Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Regular $69.00

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Malaga CE Regular Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Bold $69.00

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Malaga CE Bold Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Medium $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Medium Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Black $69.00

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Malaga CE Narrow Black Italic $69.00

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Malaga CE Medium & Black Package $210.00

Malaga CE Narrow Regular & Bold Package $210.00

Malaga CE Regular & Bold Package $210.00

Malaga CE Narrow Medium & Black Package $210.00

Malaga CE Volume $499.00