Ergilo is a contemporary interpretation of an »Old Style« Geralde created for usage in long text passages.

For Ergilo has a proportional higher x-height and a moderate contrast in the glyph widths it is an economic alternative to »Old Style« Geralde typefaces.

Ergilo comes up with twelve styles whereas the smallcaps are seperate font styles:
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• Book
• Book Italic
• Roman
• Roman Italic
• Bold
• Bold Italic
• Smallcaps Book
• Smallcaps Book Italic
• Smallcaps Roman
• Smallcaps Roman Italic
• Smallcaps Bold
• Smallcaps Bold Italic

There are two slightly different text-weights (Book and Roman) to achieve a lighter or a darker appearance …

4 Figure sets are implemented
in the fontfamily:
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In the »normal« styles:
• Tabular caps (lining) figures
 which are tabular over the whole
 range of styles and weights —
 including the smallcaps
• Proportional caps (lining) Figures
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In the »smallcaps« styles:
• Tabular old style figures
 which are tabular over the whole
 range of styles and weights
• Proportional old style figures

Currency and math. symbols are also set to the tabular width along all weights and styles. Image Right — Bottom: In the small caps styles Currencies, Parens, Braces etc. are set to the smallcaps height.

Uesful (functional) set of ligatures in all »normal« upright and italic styles …