Allrounder Baroque

Allrounder Baroque is a transitional (or “rococo”) serif typeface from the Allrounder superfamily. Its playful shapes and dynamic contrast don’t arise from a need for decoration but from strategic use of typographic features to guide the reader’s eye across the page. This makes Allrounder Baroque pleasant to read and a premier choice for long text. (Like its larger-than-life predecessors from the eponymous art epoch.) It is suited to a wide range of industries and uses: an ideal font for luxury branding, fiction books, immersive experiences in web and user interfaces, assertive corporate communication and poised correspondence.

The ideas that culminate in Allrounder Baroque date back to the 17th and 18th centuries, when punchcutters like Christoffel van Dijck and Joan Michaël Fleischman introduced details into their typefaces that were unheard of before. Vigorous and rich, with a finely tuned assortment of serif forms and ball terminals, stroke variation and sharp curves, they displayed true mastery only attainable with the cutting-edge tools of their time.

The letterforms of Baroque-era typefaces have been described as “dancing” and “lively”. Allrounder Baroque builds upon this heritage to let the words flow just as fluently and effortlessly through each paragraph. At the same time, the design concept supplies some harmonization and normalization wherever suited to the demands of today’s digital typesetting. Designer Moritz Kleinsorge made sure that long spikes, cupped serifs and bouncy ball terminals don’t distract but add flair and just a pinch of drama. Thus, the precisely cut shapes never border the exuberant. The result: a 21st century typeface that ensures optimum comprehension and retention.

Preferred applications for Allrounder Baroque are fiction books, text-heavy websites, UI/UX with a focus on reading, and branding that needs to be serious yet approachable while retaining a modicum of charm. Think finance, law, health and wellness, business consulting, and publishing. The font family is also suited to luxury packaging for cosmetics, fashion, interior design and premium furniture, organic food and beverages, and “mindful” electronic consumer goods. With its sparkling performance in large sizes, Allrounder Baroque is a winner on social media, too, letting you create suave graphics in each of these industries (and countless others).

As a true Allrounder typeface, Allrounder Baroque can be combined with any other Allrounder subfamily, such as Allrounder Grotesk, Allrounder Grotesk Mono, or even Allrounder Monument. Combining serif fonts can be tricky with many typefaces, but the Allrounder type system guarantees that all of its subfamilies create a harmonic texture together, right out of the box, with no adjustment necessary.

Each Allrounder Baroque style feeds from a large pool of professional Opentype Features: small caps, different figure sets (including circled and boxed ones), arrows (also circled and boxed), case-sensitive forms, superiors, fractions, and stylistic sets to access alternates easily. Within this extended character set you will find localized forms as well as diacritics for more than 200 Latin-based languages. The font family consists of 10 styles—5 weights plus italics—with 900+ glyphs each.

With Allrounder Baroque, the joyful richness of Baroque-era aesthetics is right at your fingertips in one honed typographic tool—ready to engulf your reader in opulent storytelling.

Design Trick: Bilingual Design With the Allrounder Superfamily

Combining Allrounder Grotesk with Allrounder Baroque is an ideal approach for bilingual designs, wherein both languages get the same emphasis yet are distinguished with two different typefaces. It's also best practice to set headlines in a different typeface than the body text if they harmonize with each other. Allrounder Grotesk and Allrounder Baroque provide you with the perfect pair for this purpose. The narrower styles of Allrounder Grotesk even let you typeset space-saving margin columns and headlines. The amount of compression can be fine-tuned using the respective axis in the Variable Font version of Allrounder Grotesk.

Effortless design in any kind of medium just got that much more copious—with Allrounder Baroque and the Allrounder type system.