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Blistao + Lemon Milk Pro FTR
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Blistao headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Tall contrasting capitals with spiral terminals and a star-like O centre
Blistao
Blistao is a high-contrast display serif in capitals whose thin strokes end in curling spirals, with a heavy stem weight and a small star cut into the last counter.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessPUA Encoded · Stylistic Alternates · Ligatures
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsCricut Design Space · Silhouette Studio · Canva Pro · Illustrator
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Blistao.
BLISTAO crosses the card in a warm cream over a dark portrait, and the letters are drawn at a size where the contrast is the subject: stems as thick as a finger, joins as fine as a hair, and terminals that roll into spirals at the top of the B, inside the S and under the O. The A carries a long diagonal that reaches into the middle of the word, and the final O has a four-pointed star cut out of its counter, which gives the line an endpoint. Above the word a small line names the studio and a second line credits the type designer; below it a paragraph of description sits in a small sans at a fraction of the size. The face is meant for one word on a large surface: a bottle, a poster, a magazine cover. The hairlines that make it look expensive are also the reason it should never be set small or printed on absorbent paper.
Tall contrasting capitals with spiral terminals and a star-like O centre
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Blistao with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Blistao + Autography
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Blistao’s stroke geometry.
Cover line for a couture issue
One word becomes the image for the whole cover, and the spiral terminals give a plain photograph a drawn element without a second graphic on the page.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 230 by 300 mm cover: set the cover word at 160 pt across one row, keep 34 mm of clear ground beneath before the cover lines at 11 pt, and hold 20 mm from the last spiral to the right trim.
Pre-production check
Hairlines under a tenth of a millimetre fill in on coated stock; print one cover and inspect the joins under a lamp before the run.
Label for a single-origin spirit
The contrast reads as expensive at label size where a modern sans reads as ordinary, and the star counter gives the bottle a mark to be recognised by.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 60 by 115 mm label: set the brand name at 34 pt on one row, keep 10 mm of clear ground beneath before the strength at 5 pt, and hold 7 mm from the widest stem to the label edge.
Pre-production check
The label curve squeezes spirals at the ends; print one label and wrap it on the bottle before the run is ordered.
Monogram line for a black-tie invitation
The hairlines suit an invitation that has no ornament, and the spiral tails carry the couple's names in one line without a rule or a drawn wreath.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 148 by 210 mm invitation: set the names at 36 pt across one row, keep 24 mm of clear ground beneath before the venue at 9 pt, and hold 18 mm of margin left and right of the widest letter.
Pre-production check
Letterpress and hairlines do not always agree; print one invitation in the intended process and check the thin strokes first.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Serif · Tall contrasting capitals with spiral terminals and a star-like O centre
- Foundry / creator
- Perfectype
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded — swashes & alternates open in Character Map (Windows) and Font Book (Mac)
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded for character-map access
Creator topic tags (48)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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