Malaga

What is the Malaga Font?

Why do we need another typeface?. This is a prickly question often asked of typeface designers. Depending on who you ask, the answer in simplified form is usually one of two: 1. As the basis of written communication, type design carries social responsibility, so we must continue to improve legibility. 2. Type design is a form of artistic expression. Without art, life is not worth living.. The best work, of course, accomplishes both. Xavier Dupré, the designer of the Malaga typeface family, has at least one leg securely planted in the latter notion. He believes, like others, that within typeface design most legibility needs have been worked out and that today we are satisfying aesthetic desires. We design typefaces to differentiate our communications. Type design is primarily a formal exercise reflecting our personal quirks, technological obsessions, and cultural heritage.. In case of Dupré’s work, issues of cultural heritage and personal quirks are of particular consequence. An incessant traveler, he visited the following countries during the development of the Malaga type family: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, France, Belgium, and finally, Spain, where his choice for the name Malaga originates (Malaga is a port city in southern Spain).. Dupré’s home is where his laptop is. He travels with a 12- or 15 inch PowerBook, without a printer, and with sporadic access to his reference books and other historical documents. All he needs is a table and chair. He even learned to design without a mouse since hotel and cafe tables are often too small to also fit a mousepad.. Dupré is the new global designer who can take disparate influences and fluidly process the information into a coherent whole. Malaga is a case in point. It is inspired by ideas ranging from blackletter to Latin fonts, and from the Quattrocento’s first Venetian antiquas to brush stroke types. This makes Malaga a richly animated font saturated with unorthodox detail. Its black and bold weights are particularly suited for headlines and short texts, while the subtle modulation and moderate contrast in the regular and medium weights makes it perfectly readable in extended text settings.. While Malaga doesn’t claim to resolve any particular legibility issues, it is nonetheless perfectly readable and will impart any design with a healthy dose of visual character.

Malaga Font Families

When you download Malaga, the family will include the following font styles:

• Malaga Regular
• Malaga Italic
• Malaga Medium
• Malaga Medium Italic
• Malaga Bold
• Malaga Bold Italic
• Malaga Black
• Malaga Black Italic
• Malaga Narrow Regular
• Malaga Narrow Italic
• Malaga Narrow Medium
• Malaga Narrow Medium Italic
• Malaga Narrow Bold
• Malaga Narrow Bold Italic
• Malaga Narrow Black
• Malaga Narrow Black Italic

Who Designed the Malaga Font?

Malaga was designed by Xavier Dupré.

This font has 16 style(s) and was published by Emigre.

Is Malaga a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Malaga is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Malaga. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Malaga for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Malaga if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Malaga to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Malaga for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Malaga, it was available for as little as $59.00.