Styles & Weights
Character Set
Type Test
Rolls belongs to the Eurostile font style, which was created in the seventies by Aldo Novarese. All the usually round letter parts are here converted into straight lines with short corner curves. They thereby acquire an inward openness. To the exterior, however, the verticals follow one after the other, which was already regarded as nicely ornamental, though less reader-friendly, in the broken typefaces of the Middle Ages. In the case of Rolls, some letters were given greater definition by means serifs rather than corner curves. It is rather like a semi-sans-serif and is set very closely. There are no italics. It is one of the few typefaces that can also be placed at a slant mechanically. It unfolds it charms with a comparatively gentle and zestful accompanying italic. Give it plenty of extra intermediate-space in continuous text!
Rolls Fonts are available in different versions:
OpenType Basic covers the
Western and Central European character set and contains one set of numerals (tabular figures).
OpenType Expert covers the
Western and Central European character set, contains various numerals and other
OpenType features.OpenType Basic contains only the black characters, OpenType Expert contains the grey characters too.
