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Sponsored by NM type . Typeface in use: Sixten , designed by Noel Pretorius and María Ramos, 2023.

Display (or Titling) typefaces are designed and used at large sizes to catch the reader’s attention (in posters, billboards, newspaper or magazine titles, covers, etc.).

In order to do so, they have more elaborate designs and/or exaggerated details than typefaces for running text.

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