Based in Cracow, Poland, Piotr Lapa is a graphic designer and typographer who focuses on branding, type design, and digital media. With a background in visual identity, website design, logo design, lettering, and illustration, Piotr has an affinity for designing visually striking and versatile typefaces used by graphic designers around the world.
One of our favorite type designs from Piotr is Manier, a wedge serif type family that took second place in our Top Ten Fonts of 2019, our annual roundup of the best-selling fonts from each year.
Manier, a type family that carries an extreme stroke contrast with vertical stress for maximum drama, was expertly crafted with inspiration taken from both transitional and contemporary typefaces.
Primarily designed for display use, Manier is a geometric type family with sharp wedge serifs that add a modern elegance to any design project. Featuring upper and lowercase characters with a high x-height, Manier can be used for longer phrases and blocks of text in its lighter weights, but its heavier weights work especially well in signage, headlines, logo designs, advertising, titling, posters, book covers, and other display applications.
In branding and identity projects, Manier is a stand-out option that conveys every message with strength, clarity, and modern sophistication. This type design instantly cranks the drama-level up to “10” when it’s used in all caps, adding a touch of luxury to any presentation.
Manier is available in Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Heavy, and Black for incredible versatility. It provides plenty of additional flexibility through OpenType features that include standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, fractions, ordinals, scientific inferiors, subscript, superscript, tabular figures, and oldstyle figures.
Manier extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Basic Greek for design projects intended for an international audience.
Right now through September 30, 2020, Manier is on sale for 55% off of its regular price so it’s a great time to add this sharp wedge serif type family to your font collection!
Piotr Lapa currently offers just two products through YouWorkForThem but we’re looking forward to seeing more of his work as time goes on. Visit his portfolio to take a look at his other work and bookmark it so you can check back for new releases in the future!
