The goal of Gabriola is to make is easy for users to produce attractive decorative typography, while using layout intelligence in the font to limit the possibilities to inadvertently produce something that does not look good.
In addition to the stylistic sets, Gabriola contains very extensive contextual glyph substitutions in each style, improving the fit of the letters and, in the more elaborate styles, avoiding ugly collisions or over-use of ornament.
Each style is distinctive, yet each harmonises with the others around the dominant basic construction of the letters. There are eight different stylistic sets, allowing users to set the same text in different modes, from the plainest style to the most elaborated and fanciful. The advanced OpenType features in Gabriola makes it come alive. Gabriola was developed with advanced OpenType features and has been optimized for advanced ClearType rendering to improve legibility on screen. The design of Gabriola was inspired by an idea from music: that the same melody can be played in multiple modes, each with its own expressive characteristics. The Gabriola font can add elegance and grace to titles, subheads and other situations in which a more decorative style of type is appropriate. Named after Gabriola Island, in British Columbia, Canada, it is primarily intended for use at larger sizes, but can also work well in short passages of text. Gabriola is a display typeface designed by John Hudson.
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