“Back in 2009, Veronika and I started playing with some sketches for a modern Roman typeface, something that was still missing in our retail library. We decided to take advantage of the historical link between the Didones and the so-called Scotch Roman styles to create a series of fonts that are suitable for body copy in daily newspapers. The initial release of Abril, in 2011, gave the designer a broad palette of tools: twelve display styles that include a whole set of typographic niceties, like ornaments, borders, special dingbats, and alternate letters and numbers, and eight text styles that were tested against some of the most popular news faces, namely Utopia and Nimrod. In 2014, based on the outcome of a series of informal chats with clients and collaborators, we saw the need for an extension of the Abril type system, which became Abril Titling. It consists of 32 fonts with four different condensation levels that are engineered to work as low-contrast titling faces. The Journal, a publication of Danish brand Bang & Olufsen, uses our Abril typeface in headlines and text throughout its three media versions: print, mobile and web.”