¶ The first version of Stella dates from 1999, it was conceived as a sans to be used as text typeface. Used as text font in Surf Portugal magazine and in many other projects Stella proved to be legible and elegant. It was designed in the simple form of four basic styles, regular, bold and their matching italics. The new OpenType version of Stella has small caps, table figures, etc. accessible through OpenType features and an extended character set supporting most of latin based languages. More weights on the way.