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Francesca Quaranta

Glasgow-based graphic designer. Creator of the flared lapidary typeface Orsini (2013). She writes: Orsini is an inscriptional font, designed for titling and advertising. The goal of this project was to create a peculiar typeface capable to give a strong personality to words and sentences. Orsini features, as large apertures, high contrast and particular terminals, were designed in order to stress the unmistakable character of this font. Orsini was inspired by an inscription placed on the facade of the Basilica di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome. These letteres have nothing to do with Roman capital letters as those on the Trajan Column. The inscription was engraved in 1453 to mention Conte Orsini's aid to the construction and many imperfections reveal an untrained hand.

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