Digital Discovery · Field guide
Vol. I / No. 01

The type.

ItalianaInstrument · Geist
April 2026
01

The four voices — one family.

Display · Serif · Sans · Mono
Display · hero
Aa
ItalianaRegular
Serif · accent italic
Aa
Instrument SerifItalic
Sans · body · UI
Aa
Geist300–700
Mono · metadata
Aa
Geist Mono400–600
02

Display scale — four steps.

Italiana all-caps · Instrument italic accent
HeroXL · Poster
We make impossible.
140 / 0.92 · Italiana + Instrument
DisplayLG · Page H1
Strategy. Systems. Software.
96 / 0.95
SectionMD · H2
Seven years of shipping the impossible.
60 / 0.98
KickerSM · H3
The Sydney studio for founders.
34 / 1.0
03

Body & UI — geist workhorse.

Geist 300–700 · all running text · all interface
Reading
We build the systems, stories and software that platforms don't — and keep the code yours.
22 / 1.5 · 300
Digital Discovery Group is a Sydney-based studio pairing strategy, design and engineering. We work with founders and retailers who need more than a template — the ones ready to own their own internet and keep the code.
17 / 1.55 · 400
Nigel Price, founder. Two decades in Australian retail e-commerce. Former Head of E-Commerce at Jaycar. Grew Bing Lee from $4M to $150M.
14 / 1.55 · 400
Interface
Full name · Business name
13 / 0.04em · 500
Start a project →
11.5 / 0.22em · 500
→ logo-ddg-mark.svg · 1.2KB
12 · Geist Mono 400
Digital Discovery · Field guide · April 2026
10 / 0.18em · Mono 400
04

Running copy — editorial passage.

How type behaves in the wild · drop cap · italic accent
Studio Notes · No. 01

Most work is mechanical. Ours isn't.

The difference between a website that runs and a system that lifts a business is usually the person who's done it before — and the code they leave behind.

We've spent seven years building the systems that platforms can't. Not because platforms are bad — they're brilliant for eighty percent of businesses. The problem is the other twenty: the ones that grew past the template, the ones with warehouse quirks, the ones who need their checkout to do six things at once.

Those are the businesses we work with. Retailers doing $4M who want to do $150M. Specialty brands with catalogues platforms choke on. Founders who've realised that owning the code is the difference between leverage and lock-in.

Italiana handles the headlines because Italiana knows how to be quiet. Instrument Serif handles the emotion. Geist handles the information. Every family has one job — and the italic fragment is always the load-bearing moment. Never bold. Never all-caps. Never competing with itself.

05

Pairings — do & don't.

The rules that keep the voice consistent
Do · Italiana + Instrument italic
We make
the impossible.
All-caps Italiana sets the tone. Instrument italic handles the emotional word. Sunset gradient lifts it. Never more than one italic fragment per headline.
Don't · Heavy sans + italic sans
We make
the impossible.
Bold sans fights Italiana's elegance. Italic sans reads as stressed, not emotive. Keep the display job on the display face.
Do · Tight line-height
Strategy, design,
code — shipped
from Sydney.
0.9–0.95 line-height for display. Italiana's tall verticals need to lock together as architectural blocks.
Don't · Airy line-height
Strategy, design,
code — shipped
from Sydney.
1.3+ line-height on display type reads as web-page body copy. The characters lose their relationship and the rhythm dies.
06

Specimen — the poster moment.

Full-bleed · max scale · one per page
Poster · 2026
We make
the impossible.
Digital Discovery · Sydney · Australia
Italiana 280 · Instrument italic 302
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