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LUC DEVROYE


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Paulfalco [Paolo Cadeddu]

Italian designer who researches classical Italian typefaces, designs related digital fonts, and writes books about his findings.

His typefaces include

  • Revivals of Alessandro Butti's Titano (1929) published between 2019 and 2021: Titano Inline, Titano Shadow, Titano Black, all captured in his Digital Titano family.
  • Digitizations of stencil fonts by Fausto Bassini originally designed between 1913 and 1940: Architettura, Cubitale 900, Imperiale, Duo, all done in 2021.
  • Neolt No 7 (2021). Based on a 1941 stencil font for architects and surveyors for floor plan titling.
  • Highalto (2013).
  • He also designed the Italian art deco fonts Decoita, Rovdeco, Decorabile, and Decolilla, the display typeface Hopifa, and the experimental typefaces Balor, Fusion Liqid and Penguin.

Author of L'Italia nascosta---Oggetti, grafica e caratteri usi e costumi (2022) (translated: Hidden Italy---Graphic objects and typefaces, uses and customs). This book tells the story of Alessandro Butti's Titano font and other types derived from the shapes of the 1930 italian stencils.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Architectural lettering/typefaces ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿








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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html