Proforma Pro

Petr van Blokland designed Proforma in the mid-1980s. It was one of the reasons that ATypI awarded him the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot prize for distinguished typographic achievement. For good reason, in the intervening 40-plus years, Proforma has secured its place in font history as a modern-day classic, even appearing in all-time top 100 typeface lists as a mainstay of exceptional contemporary type design. During those same decades, font technology evolved, including the broad adoption of watershed technologies like PostScript in the 1980s and OpenType in the ’90s — it was time to update this classic for this and future centuries.

The new Proforma Pro has undergone significant cosmetic and technical improvements. The typeface has been completely remastered. OpenType small capitals are now part of the fonts, two new weights have been added, and brand-new variable fonts, with weight and optical size axes, are now part of the extended family, making Proforma Pro, with more than 2,000 glyphs per font, more versatile than ever across a huge range of text and display sizes.

Everything that has, for decades, made Proforma great is still there, of course — its distinctive serifs, broad language support, including Vietnamese, and script support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, with additional Cyrillic support for Ukrainian, Serbian, and Bulgarian. Proforma Pro is a distinctive design with plenty of personality without ever resorting to fussy details and distracting gimmicks. Its structure, clarity, and spacing make it ideally suited to all kinds of texts. At its core, it’s a typeface designed to be read.

A personable, beautifully designed typeface, the new and improved Proforma Pro is a hard-working serif family that excels in all kinds of texts across digital and print media. Proforma has long been a strong favorite with book and magazine designers — the new Proforma Pro respects Proforma’s storied legacy while making a beloved font family even better.