A soft, rounded sans serif, Dita combines the freshness of display type with the discipline of a text face. It ambitiously redefines what contemporaneousness can mean in a typeface. Even though its stroke-endings are round, the lighter weights are still a good choice for use in body text, thanks to details that make Dita readable at small sizes, like the letters’ generous x-height and spacious counters. Dita can also be successfully used for small text on-screen, where reading conditions are sometimes more challenging. To prove this, we made Dita is the main UI typeface on the Lettermin website.

In terms of its construction, Dita has traits in common with many sans serif typefaces. Its characters have low-contrast strokes. The family’s details show a mature approach and a dedication to craft, too.

Dita Collection has a total of 30 fonts in three families. This includes five different weights ranging from Light to Extra Bold. Every weight has a complementary italic. Users can access these five upright and italic pairs in three different widths: condensed, normal or wide. There is a simple explanation for the relatively small number of weights. When strokes become too light or too heavy, rounded terminals at their ends can no longer be drawn optimally. This was one of the main challenges in designing Dita. To keep the stroke-rounding consistent through all styles, the typeface’s weight range was reigned in a bit. Designers can combine the various styles – as well as the small caps in every font – to help them build hierarchies and complex information systems. The level of contrast that the Dita family offers comes in handy when you are dealing with complex text situations, like in editorial design.

Dita’s character set supports almost all European languages written with the Latin script. The fonts’ typographic sophistication is rich and even extends to its numerals. Each number has five variants: lining and oldstyle figures in both proportional and tabular spacing, plus small-cap figures.