Gabriola is a single-style display typeface, originally designed for Microsoft between 2005 and 2009. It is primarily intended for titling use at larger sizes, but can also work well in short passages of medium-size text. The Gabriola font can add elegance and grace to titles, subheads and other situations in which a more decorative style of type is appropriate.

The design of Gabriola was inspired by an idea from music: that the same melody can be played in multiple modes, each with its own expressive characteristics. Eight different styles can be activated within the single font using OpenType Layout features, allowing users to set the same text in different modes, from the plainest style to the most elaborated and fanciful. Each style is distinctive, referencing increasingly exhuberant historical styles, yet each harmonises with the others around the dominant basic construction of the letters.

Gabriola also applies extensive contextual glyph substitutions in each style, improving the fit of the letters and, in the more elaborate styles, avoiding ugly collisions or over-use of ornament. The goal of Gabriola is to make is easy for users to produce attractive decorative typography, while using layout intelligence in the font to limit the possibilities to inadvertently produce something that does not look good.

Microsoft font family sold under M‑Product License.
TrueType OpenType format only.