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Italian letter artist (b. 1445, d. ca. 1514) who constructed his characters geometrically, as early as 1509. He practiced mathematics and was a Franciscan friar. A Franciscan monk, he is mentioned several times in the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. His Summa di Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni e Proportionalità appeared in 1494. Continuing his work on proportion, he published Divina Proportione in 1509 (Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus).

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His mathematically constructed capitals (1497) were made into a font called Pacioli by Matthew Desmond in 2007. Giovanni Mardersteig also made a font based on Pacioli's caps. Other implementations include LucaPacioliCaps (2004, Manfred Klein), Pacioli (2005, by Alessandro Segalini for Accademia Editoriale in Rome) and Pacioli (1999, a metafont by Peter Wilson).

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file name: Alessandro Segalini Pacioli New Style


file name: M A D Type Pacioli 2007


file name: Matthew Desmond Pacioli 2007 after Luca Pacioli 1509


file name: Matthew Desmond Pacioli 2007 after Luca Pacioli 1509b


file name: Luca Paccioli


file name: Luca Paccioli b


file name: Luca Pacioli 1509 Divina Proportione







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