Alessio D'Ellena

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Alessio D'Ellena Originally from Lazio, Italy, Alessio d'Ellena (b. 1985, Frattocchie, Rome) graduated from ISIA Urbano (Italy) with a thesis entitled Tipografia Parametrica e Matematica (2012). Graduate of the Typemedia program at KABK, class of 2016. He created some typefaces such as Corso (2013, text family) and New Banco (2013, after Roger Excoffon's Banco from 1951). In 2007, he co-designed Saffran with Erasmo Ciufo and published it at CAST in 2015. Saffran is a stencil sans with squarish letterforms. His graduation typeface at KABK in 2016 is the 9-12 point text typeface Laica, which is characterized by tall-hat terminals on glyphs like the 4, the a and the t. Like Trump's politics, Laica surprises---no glyph is what one would expect. It won an award in the TDC Typeface Design competition in 2017. Laica A sports chiseled transitions that guarantee good rhythm and balance from small-sized text use to eye-catching billboard applications. Laica B has straight transitions at its joints and therefore an overall more simplified, elegant tone. Laica was released by Dinamo in 2020, where Alessio was supported by Franziska Weitgruber, Igino Marini (kerning) and Chi-Long Trieu (font engineering). In 2017, he designed the sans typeface Juventus Fans.	EXTERNAL LINKS Alessio D'Ellena MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Mathematics fonts ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿