Bona Terra

By Rosie Wisniewski · Portland, Oregon, USA

Bona Terra

Bona Terra is a comfortable and friendly text typeface intended for cookbooks and recipes. This design ranges from a regular weight to black weight, with an additional italic style. This typeface is great for pleasant, long-form reading at a 10–12 point size in print or digital. This design was created with my family in mind and with the intention of creating a cookbook that includes my grandmother’s recipes.

About Rosie Wisniewski

Rosie is a designer based in Portland, Oregon.

Bona Terra, a text typeface for cookbooks, created by Rosie Wisniewski in the Type West Online 2022 program. Text written in Bona Terra Regular and Italic with a green background.
The Bona Terra type family is displayed in the regular, medium, bold, black, and italic weights.
The word ‘Randgloves’ is shown twice. The one above is my first sketch from Term 2, and the one below is the final digitization of Bona Terra Regular that I completed by the end of Term 3.
A complete character set of Bona Terra Regular, including the uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, symbols, and diacritics.
A complete character set of Bona Terra Black, including the uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation, symbols, and diacritics.
A complete character set of Bona Terra Italic, including the uppercase, lowercase, numerals, and punctuation.
As an example of the typeface in use, a soft caramel recipe is displayed. It showcases a mix of the Bona Terra Regular, Black, and Italic. The point size decreases as the text goes down the page.
Two columns of large text ascending and descending through the fonts of the Bona Terra family.
A mockup of a lemon drop martini recipe using Bona Terra.
A mockup of a spread from a cookbook. On the left page, it shows the recipe for Boots’ Spaghetti Sauce and the right page shows an image of the dish.