Classic yet modern, agile yet playful—serious, graceful, witty, elegant, and youthful. That’s Ribbonetta, the new typeface by Ales Santos for Sudtipos.
Its name comes from the visual effect created by the intersections within the letterforms, reminiscent of ribbons or streamers folding and twisting in motion.
Yet the shapes themselves don’t come from that image—they are born from the stroke of a brush imitating a fine-point nib drawing an English or copperplate letter: a soft brush aspiring to be something more refined, elevated, and poised.
In other words, when a brush draws fine strokes, it often leaves slightly irregular lines, with a touch of weight at the start. Instead of seeing this as a flaw, this gesture became the foundation of a new style—applying its logic to an entire way of constructing letters, and ultimately, to a typeface.
The skeleton of the letters has also been reimagined. Organic calligraphic shapes merge with more rigid, controlled strokes to strike a balance between movement and structure, nature and architecture, seriousness and play.
The result is a typeface perfect for headlines, distinctive text, logos, packaging, branding—and countless other uses.