ITC Luna

Tokyo-based designer Akira Kobayashi turned to the 1930s while designing both ITC Luna and ITC Silvermoon. “Luna is designed to fill the gap between a pure Art Deco display face and an ordinary text face, ” says Kobayashi. “It has an Art Deco style, but is still fairly easy to read - it can be used in short passages of text.” The strong contrast in the strokes, especially in Luna Bold, give it some of its '30s character. Kobayashi adds, “As for individual characters, I especially liked the distinctive O, shaded only on one side.Lowercase a and g are also unusual, but they are somehow legible enough in text matter.”