BERIMBAU

Berimbau is a whimsical narrow hand-drawn typeface. Itís stylish, versatile and loaded with amazing OpenType features that do their magic in OpenType savvy applications.

Its sprightly swashes and twisting stylistic alternates (hey, say that 3 times fast!) play together to deliver a really cool contextual feature that, in a push-button way, substitutes the first letter in a word with its left swash version and the last letter with its right swash version (please type a space before and after the words to trigger it). The feature also applies stylistic variants to some intermediate letters. Which button to push? The Contextual Alternates one!

If you’re not a one-click-way-person you can pick your preferred glyphs through the glyphs palette. There youíll find at least 4 variations for each letter: left swash, right swash and 2 regular forms that correspond to the upper and lower case keys. Some letters also have a 5th variation that acts as stylistic alternate. This font is conveniently packed with the ëaccess all alternatesí functionality, so when you click on a glyph at the glyphs palette youíll see all variations available for it, making it easier to choose the one that will fit better.

A bold weight was made to provide that extra-strength when a bit of boldness is welcome. Please note that it doesnít have the advanced OpenType features (but is still very charming!). Yet, both weights have a handy set of ornaments for added yumminess.