“Since their appearance as ‘Italians’ on Caslon’s 1821 specimens, reverse-contrast fonts have been typography’s best-loved, quirky outcasts. Learning from modern reverse-contrast classics like those by Roger Excoffon or Aldo Novarese, the Zetafonts design team, led by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, decided to marry Stinger into this subversive tradition with the approach of modernist superfamilies, expanding the design space into a wide range of widths and weights. Aiming for wide language coverage, we included Arabic script glyphs, naturally bridging the differences in stroke design between Latin and Arabic alphabets.”