FF Celeste supports up to 107 different languages such as Spanish, English, Portuguese, Russian, German, French, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kurdish (Latin), Azerbaijani (Latin), Romanian, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Kazakh (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Bulgarian, Swedish, Belarusian (Latin), Belarusian (Cyrillic), Croatian, Slovak, Finnish, Danish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovenian, Irish, Estonian, Basque, Icelandic, and Luxembourgian in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and other scripts.
Please note that not all languages are available for all formats.
FF Celeste is a typeface for designers who like the idea of a Bodoni or Walbaum, but look for a robust and readable text face which tempers the sobriety of romance type with friendlier Renaissance-era features. The serifs tend to the triangular and the italics harmonize well with the roman in tone and width. The letterforms are less rationalized and modular than the starkest modern faces, but are influenced by old-style letterforms, even with some vestige of a calligraphic influence to create a more readable dynamic. Designer Chris Burke classifies FF Celeste as a modern humanistic face. The stroke-weight contrast is less pronounced than in traditional models such as Walbaum, making FF Celeste more suitable for current digital typesetting and offset printing, where high contrast is very accurately – perhaps too accurately – maintained. The font family FF Celeste initially included only four members, Regular and Bold with an italic for each. As the Bold was not particularly heavy, really more of a semi bold, it was felt that the family could do with some heavier styles. So FF Celeste Extra Bold and Black have been provided for occasions in which greater emphasis, impact or differentiation is required. The Extra Bold provides effective emphasis with the Regular weight, and the Black can be paired with the existing Bold. These combinations will be useful in, for example, designing dictionaries or reference books, in which different strata of information need to be given different tiers of emphasis. In 2007, its Book weight was added.
