CA Normal aims for beauty without tricks — just clarity and well-balanced proportions.CA Normal aims for beauty without tricks — just clarity and well-balanced proportions. It pulls from European grotesques and American gothic, mixing the two into something that feels like its own thing. The concept stays in the background, which is exactly the point. True neutrality might not exist, but CA Normal gets closer to it than most.
Good text typefaces can't be too smooth or too restless. CA Normal handles this by slipping in small, slightly uneven details that keep the reader's eye moving without being distracting. The oblique follows the grotesque tradition — no separately drawn italics, just a slanted version of the roman. There's also a reverse oblique, a style you usually only see on maps, which is a nice surprise.
Underneath the clean surface, the font is well-equipped: small caps, a central European character set, a wide range of numerals, and plenty of ligatures. By default, CA Normal sets numbers as proportional lining figures. If you'd rather use old-style or tabular figures, just switch them via the OpenType options in your layout program.
Designed by:
Stefan Claudius
Styles: 15
Supported Languages:
Western encoding
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