According to Monotype Imaging, the new 20-font typeface suite, Ysobel™ Pro (pronounced “Isabel”), is designed for both text and display applications.

Designed by Robin Nicholas, Alice Savoie and Delve Withrington, the Ysobel typefaces are intended primarily for newspaper and periodical copy.

Nicholas notes that the idea for the Ysobel faces started when he was asked to create a custom, updated version of the classic Century Schoolbook typeface, which was designed to be an extremely readable typeface – one that made its appearance in school textbooks beginning in the early 1900s.