Girassol is an all-caps (plus smallcaps) display typeface inspired by the lettering on hand-painted street signs in and around Carcavelos, Portugal.

The primary characteristics that define Girassol include its condensed proportions, moderate contrast following the expansion model, a thorny, decorative serif construction that pierces the baseline and cap height, and playful flourishes like those on the R, J, K, Q, and figures that mimic the decoration possible in hand-painted signage.

The typeface is meant to evoke the identity and spirit of the place where I encountered the inspirational forms, while accounting for my own presence and experiences.

Features include lining numerals, fractions, discretionary ligatures, and alternates.

Default ligatures

• TT
• RR

Discretionary ligatures

• DE
• EA
• LA
• TE
• TT

Titling

• Words (up to 5 characters) set in lowercase/smallcaps between words set in caps vertically center

Alternates

• J (+ a narrow J will automatically appear when J is set in the middle of words to create more harmonious spacing)
• K
• Q
• dagger/daggerdbl
• ampersand (a small ampersand will automatically appear when set among smallcaps)

Girassol is licensed under the SIL Open Font License v1.1

New changes will be added to the start of this section.

3 November 2019 (Liam Spradlin) Girassol v0.03/v0.04

v0.04

• Cleaned up feature code
• Added alternate Q
• Updated README image
• Revised punctuation and diacritics
• Filled out the rest of the math symbols

v0.03

• Added new ligatures T/E and E/A
• Organized features
• Added a titling feature that elevates smallcap words set between cap words
• Updated .notdef :)

2 November 2019 (Liam Spradlin) Girassol v0.02

• Added OpenType features to support discretionary ligatures and alternates
• Tweaked a few ligatures (see commit)

1 November 2019 (Liam Spradlin) Girassol v0.01

• The very first push :)