A flared sans serif family for candle, soap and skincare labels.
Fiammella is a flared sans serif family in four styles: Light, Regular, Italic and Bold. Its name means little flame, and its strokes swell gently toward their ends like the tip of a candle flame, with long swash tails for names. Calm, warm and quietly premium, it suits labels and packaging for candles, soap and natural cosmetics.
Buy the family of four styles or any style alone.
Fiammella goes back to the carved lettering of Renaissance Florence, where strokes swell toward their ends instead of closing in serifs. We made it lighter and warmer than the stone letters, closed each stroke in a soft point like a candle flame, and gave R, Q and K long swash tails of their own.
Every stem of Fiammella is thinner in the middle than at its ends. In Light the l is 58 units wide at the base and 42 in the middle. The stems swell gently toward their ends instead of ending in serifs, and that small waist gives each letter its warmth.
Its tail runs 110 units past the width the letter takes in a line, so it slips under the next letter. In every style, stylistic set 1 gives R, Q and K a longer, sweeping tail for names, and the plain letter comes back by itself before a descender, so the tail never touches a p or a g.
The stems grow by a ratio, not by equal steps: the middle of the l is 42 units in Light, 65 in Regular and 100 in Bold, about one and a half times at each step. Halfway between Light and Bold would be 71, and the Regular would look too dark beside the Light.
No. The Italic leans 9 degrees and is drawn again, narrower and more fluent: its stems end in small exit strokes, so a short note in Italic reads like handwriting beside a name in Light.
Fiammella Light
Fiammella Regular
Fiammella Italic
Fiammella Bold
Fiammella has the accented letters for 30 languages written in the Latin alphabet, in all four styles, so the same label works in English, French, Polish, Turkish or Indonesian. Choose a language to see a line set in Fiammella.
Savon à l’huile d’olive et à la lavande
French letters: à â æ ç è é ê ë î ï ô ù û ü ÿ œ
Handgemachte Seife mit Olivenöl und Lavendel
German letters: ä ö ü ß
Jabón artesanal de aceite de oliva y lavanda
Spanish letters: á é í ñ ó ú ü ¡ ¿
Sapone all’olio d’oliva, è fatto a mano
Italian letters: à á è é ì í ò ó ù ú
Sabão de azeite e lavanda, feito à mão
Portuguese letters: à á â ã ç è é ê í ò ó ô õ ú
Handgemaakte zeep met olijfolie en lavendel
Dutch letters: á â ä è é ê ë í ï ó ô ö ú û ü ij
Sabó d’oli d’oliva i espígol, fet a mà
Catalan letters: à ç è é í ï ò ó ú ü ŀ
Handgjord tvål med olivolja och lavendel
Swedish letters: å ä ö é
Håndlavet sæbe med olivenolie og lavendel
Danish letters: å æ ø é
Håndlaget såpe med olivenolje og lavendel
Norwegian letters: å æ ø é è ê ó ò ô
Käsintehty saippua, oliiviöljyä ja laventelia
Finnish letters: ä ö å š ž
Handgerð sápa með ólífuolíu
Icelandic letters: á æ é í ð ó ö ú ý þ
Ręcznie robione mydło z oliwą i lawendą
Polish letters: ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż
Ručně vyráběné mýdlo s olivovým olejem a levandulí
Czech letters: á č ď é ě í ň ó ř š ť ú ů ý ž
Ručne vyrábané mydlo s olivovým olejom a levanduľou
Slovak letters: á ä č ď é í ĺ ľ ň ó ô ŕ š ť ú ý ž
Kézzel készült szappan olívaolajjal és levendulával
Hungarian letters: á é í ó ö ő ú ü ű
Săpun făcut manual cu ulei de măsline și lavandă
Romanian letters: ă â î ș ț
Zeytinyağlı ve lavantalı el yapımı sabun
Turkish letters: ç ğ ı İ ö ş ü
Käsitsi valmistatud seep oliiviõli ja lavendliga
Estonian letters: ä õ ö ü š ž
Gallúnach lámhdhéanta le hola olóige
Irish letters: á é í ó ú
Siabann air a dhèanamh le làimh
Scottish Gaelic letters: à è é ì ò ó ù
Eskuz egindako xaboia, oliba olioarekin
Basque letters: ñ ü
Xabón artesanal de aceite de oliva e lavanda
Galician letters: á é í ñ ó ú ü
Sapun i bërë me dorë me vaj ulliri
Albanian letters: ç ë
Handgemaakte seep met olyfolie en laventel
Afrikaans letters: á é è ê ë î ï ö ô û ü ý
Sabun buatan tangan dengan minyak zaitun
Sabun buatan sendiri dengan minyak zaitun dan lavender
Sabong gawa sa kamay, may langis ng oliba
Filipino letters: ñ
Sabuni ya mafuta ya zeituni, imetengenezwa kwa mkono
Yes. The Desktop licence covers personal and client work: labels, packaging, logos, signs, print-on-demand products and social media pictures.
Yes. On Gumroad each style is sold alone from $19, and the family of four is $59.
Turn on Stylistic Set 1 in an app with OpenType features, such as Illustrator, InDesign or Affinity. Before a p, g or y the plain letter stays by itself, so tails never collide.
Yes. Install the OTF on your computer or iPad, and any app that uses installed fonts can set it. The swash letters need an app with OpenType features.
Yes, with the Web, App or ePub licence, sold on Gumroad. The licence page explains each one in plain words.
Thirty languages written in the Latin alphabet, in every style, from French and Polish to Turkish and Indonesian. Each one is shown above.