Rival is a robust and versatile type family that unites four distinct styles: Serif, Slab, Sans, and Narrow. With 62 fonts, it offers designers a powerful toolset for creating visually consistent yet diverse projects, from editorial work to branding, web design, and advertising. This comprehensive type system is designed to meet the needs of graphic professionals looking for flexibility without compromising on coherence.
Rival Serif is a modern typeface rooted in traditional round-nib calligraphy, featuring unique characteristics like broken curves, subtly curved downstrokes, diagonals with soft bends, and slanted axes. These details bring a fresh, contemporary aesthetic to a wide range of graphic applications, making it suitable for both display and long-form text. The serif family includes seven weights, each with corresponding italics, and offers advanced OpenType features such as small caps, old-style figures, ligatures, fractions, and case-sensitive forms. Its versatility shines in everything from advertising and packaging to editorial layouts and branding projects.
The Rival Sans family, consisting of 32 fonts, presents a highly modern and functional sans-serif design. With its distinctive ten-degree angled terminals and sharp cuts on characters like “l” and “b,” Rival Sans exudes dynamism and modernity. Its humanistic touches, like the open contours of the “a” and “e,” introduce warmth and fluidity to the overall design, making it engaging yet professional. The italic styles, with their rounded curves, bring an additional layer of character, ensuring a seamless blend with the regular version.
Complementing the serif and sans versions, Rival Slab introduces eight weights with true italics. The slab serif design harmonizes perfectly with the other styles in the Rival family, making it an ideal companion for complex typographic systems. Rival Slab brings a strong presence with its bold forms and a comprehensive set of OpenType features, including alternate characters, circled figures, and extensive kerning options. This makes it perfect for editorial work, signage, and other large-scale design projects.
For space-conscious designs, Rival Narrow rounds out the collection, providing a condensed sans-serif option that retains the design integrity of its wider counterparts. With its sleek, compact forms, Rival Narrow is well-suited for editorial layouts, branding, and web design where space is at a premium.
Across the entire family, Rival covers more than 200 languages, offering over 970 glyphs per font. This extensive language support makes it a go-to choice for global projects. Whether you’re creating a multi-lingual magazine, an international ad campaign, or a sophisticated branding package, Rival’s comprehensive range of styles ensures that your typography is both cohesive and adaptable.
In sum, Rival’s 62-font system is more than just a collection of typefaces—it’s a design solution that offers modernity, versatility, and high functionality for the most demanding graphic design projects. With seamless integration between Serif, Slab, Sans, and Narrow, Rival empowers designers to create bold, consistent, and visually stunning work across all mediums.
To experience Rival for yourself, it can be tested freely and without restrictions through our “Test License for Creators” program, offering full access to its features before making a commitment.
