Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli, Dialogue was created out of a mutual exchange of ideas and interpretations of the traditional garalde letterforms first developed in Venice by punchcutters like Francesco Griffo in the fifteenth century. Drawing on brutalist design principles and a keen sense of balance, they sought to create a font that was equally effective at both text and display sizes. What emerged from this unique and intriguing typographic conversation is a typeface that is at once elegant and rugged, with crisp, sharp edges and smooth curves. The spirit of exchange and conversation that animates this typeface wants to connect pixel-perfect contemporary aesthethic with renaissance proportions and timeless taste, keeping the high readability of old style letterforms but introducing little bold and distinct design details that command attention and draws the reader in. To honor the spirit of conversation, the typeface also includes a series of non-standard punctuation and conversation-specific icons, accessible via Open Type Features.