W
Raleway
Thin
BY MATT McINERNEY
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface designed by Matt McInerney, initially in only a single Thin weight. It was later extended by designers at Impallari Type into a full family of nine weights, from Thin to Heavy with true Italics for each of the weights.
The typeface features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a set of diacritics, and stylistic alternates inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than its neo-grotesque inspired default character set.
The chosen letterform, a capital ‘W’ in Raleway Thin, was chosen due to its distinctive crossed central strokes that are unique identifiers of the typeface as a whole.
