Seria: a subtle textface with striking details
Seria® was released in 2000. It can be seen as a ‘literary’ typeface, with long ascenders and descenders and a distinctive upright italic. Its relatively small x-height makes Seria a rewarding challenge for the experienced typographer.
Augmenting Seria with a sans serif version was an obvious next step. Using a black marker and some white paint, the serifed characters were transformed into a sans, resulting in Seria Sans, which retains the same long ascenders and descenders as Seria, quite unusual for a sans serif.
In 2003, the Seria family won two awards: a Certificate of Excellence from the ISTD and a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from ATypI.
In 2021 Martin Majoor launched an independent type foundry under his own name. Majoor is known for his award-winning typefaces (Scala, Seria, Nexus) that were originally published by Fontshop. His Scala and Scala Sans are considered ‘classics’ and are among the first digital typefaces. In collaboration with Jos Buivenga he designed the large and successful Questa family. In his latest typeface ‘Comma Base’, he explores the basic shapes of a typeface, with both typical sans features and at the same time serif elements. It can be seen as a typeface featuring the best of both worlds. Comma Base is the first typeface to be released by his own foundry.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
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