Luma


About

Luma is a contemporary typeface with organic round serifs and unexpected details. An exercise in juxtaposition, Luma was born from the idea of transforming the sharp and mechanic shapes of a monospaced typeface into something more organic and unexpected. Eventually the once-monospace typeface morphed into the proportional typeface you see here, with the organic serifs remaining.

The typeface features interesting details of curves meeting straight lines in unexpected ways. Those details allow the type to shine at large sizes, while the traditional letterform proportions and modest amount of contrast allow the type to remain comfortable to read in body copy. For maximum flexibility and precision typesetting, all Faire Type typefaces are available as variable fonts, and the Luma family features a weight axis and custom contrast axis that controls the size of the serifs and the weight of the stems. On the other end of that contrast axis is Luma Reverse, a reverse contrast display typeface.


Styles

Regular
Medium
Bold
Black

Weight
Contrast
  • Luma Variable
  • Weight 400
  • Contrast 12
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Variable fonts are a modern type of font file that contain more than one style of a font. For example, Sprig Variable has a weight axis and contains all weights of the font ranging from hairline to super. So instead of having 8 files, a variable font allows you to have just one. In addition to reducing files and file size (which is great for the web ♥) variable fonts provide tons of amazing animation opportunities, and allow you to get super precise. In Sprig Variable you’re not limited to the weights we define, if you need something heavier than regular but lighter than medium, a variable font allows you to get it just right for your project.

Luma Regular
150px
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Contrast
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Luma Medium
150px
Weight
Contrast
Size

Luma Bold
150px
Weight
Contrast
Size

Luma Black
150px
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Luma Regular
24px
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Size

In the Galapagos Archipelago almost every product of the land and water bears the unmistakable stamp of the American continent. There are twenty-six land birds, and twenty-five of these are ranked by Mr. Gould as distinct species, supposed to have been created here; yet the close affinity of most of these birds to American species in every character, in their habits, gestures, and tones of voice, was manifest. The naturalist, looking at the inhabitants of these volcanic islands in the Pacific, distant several hundred miles from the continent, yet feels that he is standing on American land. Why should this be so? Why should the species which are supposed to have been created in the Galapagos Archipelago, and nowhere else, bear so plain a stamp of affinity to those created in America? There is nothing in the conditions of life, in the geological nature of the islands, in their height or climate, or in the proportions in which the several classes are associated together, which resembles closely the conditions of the South American coast: In fact there is a considerable dissimilarity in all these respects. On the other hand, there is a considerable degree of resemblance in the volcanic nature of the soil, in climate, height, and size of the islands, between the Galapagos and Cape de Verde Archipelagos: But what an entire and absolute difference in their inhabitants! The inhabitants of the Cape de Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America. I believe this grand fact can receive no sort of explanation on the ordinary view of independent creation; whereas on the view here maintained, it is obvious that the Galapagos Islands would be likely to receive colonists, whether by occasional means of transport or by formerly continuous land, from America; and the Cape de Verde Islands from Africa; and that such colonists would be liable to modification — the principle of inheritance still betraying their original birthplace.


Luma Regular
18px
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Contrast
Size
Les pinsons de Darwin (connus aussi sous le nom de pinsons des Galápagos) sont 13 ou 14 espèces apparentées dont Charles Darwin a recueilli des spécimens en recensant la faune sur les îles Galápagos durant son voyage sur l’HMS Beagle. Treize espèces résident sur les îles Galápagos et une sur les îles Cocos. Ces oiseaux sont tous de la même taille : de 10 à 20 cm. Les plus importantes différences entre ces espèces se trouvent dans la taille et la forme du bec. Ces variations s’expliquent par les pratiques alimentaires propres à chaque espèce. Les oiseaux sont tous bruns ou noirs. Leurs comportements sont différents, tout comme leurs chants. Bien que ces oiseaux aient joué un grand rôle dans la conception de la théorie darwinienne de l’évolution par la sélection naturelle, Darwin, durant son voyage autour du monde à bord de l’HMS Beagle, n’avait pas conscience de leur importance. On suppose souvent que c’est la découverte de ces oiseaux dans l’archipel des Galápagos qui inspira la théorie de l’évolution à Darwin, mais ce n’est pas tout à fait exact : ce n’est qu’à son retour, et à la suite de nombreux échanges scientifiques, que Darwin s’aperçut de l’intérêt que présentent ces multiples espèces d’oiseaux pour comprendre les phénomènes de spéciation et d’évolution par sélection naturelle. L’expression pinsons de Darwin est d’abord apparue en 1936, mais elle fut véritablement popularisée en 1947 à travers les écrits de David Lack. À son retour en Angleterre, Darwin, qui n’est pas un expert sur le sujet, présente les pinsons capturés aux Galápagos durant la réunion du 4 janvier 1837 de la Geological Society of London, parmi d’autres spécimens de vertébrés récoltés durant ce même voyage. C’est John Gould (1804-1881), célèbre ornithologue de la Zoological Society of London, qui se charge de l’identification et de la classification des spécimens rapportés par Darwin.

Glyphs

Basic Latin

Extended Latin

Ligature and Alternates

Punctuation

Numbers, Superiors, Inferiors, Fractions

Symbols, Currency, Math, Arrows

Emojis


FAIRE Luma Emojis

Luma


Luma Colophon


Luma Sans Design
Sabrina Nacmias

Luma Design
Maxime Gau

Luma Reverse Design
Sabrina Nacmias

Engineering
Sabrina Nacmias

Release
2023

Version
1.0

File Types
.OTF, .TTF, .WOFF2

Supported Languages


Albanian
Asu
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Breton
Catalan
Chiga
Colognian
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
Ganda
German
Gusii
Hungarian
Inari Sami
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Jola-Fonyi
Kabuverdianu
Kalenjin
Kinyarwanda
Koyra ChiiniLatvian
Koyraboro Senni
Lithuanian
Lower Sorbian
Luo
Luxembourgish
Luyia
Machame
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
Maltese
Manx
Marshallese
Moldavian
Morisyen
North Ndebele
Northern Sami
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Nyankole
Oromo
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Rombo
Rundi
Rwa
Samburu
Sango
Sangu
Scottish Gaelic
Sena
Serbian
Shambala
Shona
Slovak
Soga
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Swiss German
Taita
Tasawaq
Teso
Turkish
Upper Sorbian
Uzbek (Latin)
Volapük
Vunjo
Walser
Welsh
Western Frisian
Zarma
Zulu

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