Malik Extralight
Malik Extralight Italic
Malik Light
Malik Light Italic
Malik Book
Malik Book Italic
Malik Regular
Malik Italic
Malik Medium
Malik Medium Italic
Malik Bold
Malik Bold Italic
Malik Extrabold
Malik Extrabold Italic
Malik Heavy Display
Malik Heavy Display Italic
Taking its name from the arabic word for "king", Malik is a flared sans serif typeface family designed in 2020 by Andrea Tartarelli. The designer wanted to find a way to bridge the classical letterforms of Roman Old Style typefaces with the readability of contemporary sans typefaces. This was achieved by using the so-called flared serif that emerges gradually from the stem of the letter, ending in a sharp angle. It's something that also reminds of the peculiar shapes of the Simoncini Method, invented by italian type designer Francesco Simoncini to get a sharper definition of letterforms. To this blend of classical elegance and modernist expertise, Malik adds the calligraphic influence of modern masters like Frederic Goudy or Ed Benguiat, visible in signature details like the reverse contrast uppercase B, or the calligraphic lowercase k.
Malik also means "owner", and this font surely wants to rule the page. It manages to be extremely readable when used in body text size, but looks surprising and expressive in display use. The inclusion of the Malik Heavy Display weight, with its black texture balanced by deep inktraps, allows for striking logo design. The weight range of the family is extremely wide, including a Book alternative to the Regular weight for fine-tuning readability, a range of light display weights and a solid choice of bold weights for branding, all coming with matching true italics. The 16 cuts of Malik have been equipped with all the features you need to solve your editorial and design challenges, including a wide language coverage (thanks to over one thousand latin and cyrillic characters) and a complete set of open type features (including small capitals, positional numbers, case sensitive forms). Alternate characters and stylistic sets allow you to fine-tune your editorial and branding design by choosing variant letter shapes.
Malik is the typeface for everyone who wants to design like a king...or like he doesn't care who the king is!
Weights
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CExtralight
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CLight
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CBook
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CRegular
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CMedium
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CBold
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CExtrabold
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CHeavy Display
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CVariable
Features
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fi flStandard Ligatures
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¿H?Case-Sensitive Forms
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ABCDESmall Capitals From Capitals
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fk fbDiscretionary Ligatures
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agStylistic Alternates
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RagSmall Capitals
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BPRStylistic Set 1
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JUyStylistic Set 2
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twStylistic Set 3
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xStylistic Set 4
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1/2Fractions
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1o2aOrdinals
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123Oldstyle Figures
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1234Tabular Figures
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123Alternate Annotation Forms
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H123Denominators
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H123Subscript
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H123Superscript
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H123Scientific Inferiors
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H123Numerators
Variable Typefaces
Malik Variable
VARIABLE FONTS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE WITH THE FULL FAMILY PACKAGE, MAY NOT WORK WITH ALL THE SOFTWARE
European languages
The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
