Typeface specimen · Version 0.3Drawn for LYLIA · Bar, 2026

LYLIA

Slab Serif, Regular & Bold

A typeface drawn for LYLIA from one film photograph of a 1970s restaurant: olive wallpaper, cane chairs and a menu numbered big enough to read from the door. It sets every name and every number the brand has.

2Weights
316Characters
21Ligatures
0.3Version
57°180°303°329°
01 · Where it comes from

The reference was a menu, so here is one. The numbers carry the page and the dotted leaders do the waiting. It’s set in Montenegrin first, because the letters with marks, like č, ć, š, ž and đ, were drawn with the rest and not added later.

02 · Tester

Type anything.

Click the line and write over it. Change the weight, size, ligatures and colour, or pick one of the ready-made lines below.

Four shadows from the longest day.
03 · Version 0.3

Everything on the line.

In the earlier drafts some letters stood a little short or floated just off the baseline. Version 0.3 puts every letter on the same five lines, so round letters overshoot by the same hair and the figures stand level. Pick a letter to see where it sits.

The selected letter drawn large against the font's vertical metrics
Ascender822
Cap height700
x-height554
Baseline0
Descender−248
Round overshoot10 to 12
Units per em1000

What changed: every capital now meets the cap line, so K, L, M, V, W, X and Y no longer stand short. The r and the 1 no longer float. The figures are lining and level. The lowercase z was redrawn from scratch so it stands upright at the same height as x.

Before and after: letters of LYLIA Slab Serif brought onto the same baseline and heights in version 0.3.
Before and after the alignment pass.
04 · Ligatures

Fifteen for text, six for show.

The f ligatures switch on by themselves. The six display ligatures (st, tt, TH, TT, ER and LA) are for headlines, and you turn them on with the discretionary ligatures setting. Tap any pair to see it without.

05 · Sizes

From the small print to the door.

The same line from 12 to 160 pixels. On the packs, anything smaller than 14 is handed to IBM Plex Mono, which sets the small print.

06 · Character set

All 316, both weights.

Basic and extended Latin for English, Montenegrin and most of Europe, with lining figures, currency, punctuation and the degree sign the whole brand depends on. Hover or tap a character to see it large.

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Character
Degree sign
Unicode
U+00B0
07 · Weights

Two weights, one voice.

Regular does almost everything. Bold is for the rare moment something has to be said twice.

Regular 400
Žutica

Olive oil from Žutica olives, pressed in Bar. Massage into damp skin after the last swim, while the sun goes down at 303°.

Bold 700
Žutica

Olive oil from Žutica olives, pressed in Bar. Massage into damp skin after the last swim, while the sun goes down at 303°.