The Adelle Constellation by Tereza Bettinardi is a typography design project featuring 17 font families printed with spot fluorescent inks.

Tereza Bettinardi designed The Adelle Constellation as a 64-page publication for TypeTogether, uniting the complete Adelle superfamily into a single collectible volume for the first time. The catalogue showcases 17 font families and multi-script editions—ranging from Adelle Serif and Adelle Condensed to Adelle Sans, Adelle Mono, and Adelle Mono Flex. Across 13 language scripts, the visual system organizes variable weights from ultrathin to heavy into a cosmic orbital grid, demonstrating how systemic typography scales gracefully across diverse global writing systems and complex editorial hierarchies.

Typography design and cosmic layout hierarchy

At the foundation of this typography design is a disciplined layout grid that gives every script, character specimen, and glyph detail its own distinct orbital alignment. By establishing rigid structural margins and explicit baseline grids, Tereza Bettinardi allows letterform geometry, baseline grid contrast, and generous letter-spacing to guide visual pacing throughout the entire publication. Scale contrasts between heavy display headers, medium body copy, and delicate caption metadata are calculated to maintain structural harmony without clutter. The resulting spreads present dense typographic information with exceptional clarity, celebrating the structural craftsmanship of modern type design.

Across physical spreads, special binding details, and tactile paper swatches, the publication leverages material contrast to technical typography into an object of visual art. Printed using four fluorescent spot colors alongside shimmering metallic Pantone inks, every page presents stark visual tension between luminous neon highlights, dense metallic gradients, and deep black letterforms. The selection of heavy textured paper stocks enhances the physical feel, ensuring that tactile finishes, ink density, paper grain, and precise print craftsmanship carry equal weight. This rigorous material execution sets a high benchmark for editorial catalog design and modern book production.

See the full project by Tereza Bettinardi on Behance.

Type specimen cover spread — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Fluorescent spot color specimen page — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Multi-script layout grid detail — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Adelle Mono and Serif weight comparison — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Metallic Pantone ink and paper texture spread — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Cosmic orbital grid specimen spread — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Letterform anatomy and character set detail — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi
Closing publication spread and neon accent detail — typography design by Tereza Bettinardi