Identify Christopher Burke’s serif family
FontFont’s FF Celeste resource credits Christopher Burke and dates the serif design to 1994. It identifies a wider superfamily with FF Celeste Sans and FF Celeste Small Text. Preserve these names in a project record: a common root name does not mean the three products are interchangeable styles of one file.
Choose numeral shape and spacing independently
The publisher documents oldstyle and lining figures in both proportional and tabular widths. Make an editorial proof with the year 2026 in a running sentence and a small two-column table of edition numbers. Compare figure shape within the sentence, then compare spacing within the table. Record both settings. Lining does not automatically mean tabular, and oldstyle does not automatically mean proportional.
Include the actual scholarly details in the proof
The family resource also lists small capitals, fractions, and super- and subscript characters. Add a real note marker and a sample fraction before deciding the page system, checking the application’s actual feature controls. Lora and Petrona here are independent comparisons. The homepage’s Unicode text treatments solve a different portable-text task; they do not reproduce FF Celeste’s OpenType settings or establish its original character coverage.
For another named text family with dedicated figure and small-cap choices, compare the Triangle guide while preserving its supplied Book style name.
Your questions, answered.
What should Celeste’s numeral settings record?
Record both figure shape and spacing: oldstyle or lining, and proportional or tabular.
Are FF Celeste Sans and Small Text the same serif file?
The publisher identifies them as separately named companions in the superfamily. Select and record the actual resource used.
Sources & background
Sources supporting this page’s explanations. Practical examples are our editorial suggestions.