Ruggero Magri

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Ruggero Magri Ruggero Magri (Catania, Italy) studied graphic design and art direction at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. He is still based in Milan. Magri developed an interest in typography, which led him to pursue courses in calligraphy sign painting, and lettering. During a workshop at Type Paris 2018, he designed the experimental interpolative typeface Cimer. He is now working on projects at Typofonderie with Jean François Porchez, and for AlfaType Fonts in Italy. In 2019, he published a set of Tuscan capitals. Recipient of the 2019 SOTA Catalyst Award. As a member of the Italian open source font cooperative Collletttivo, he released the free font Ignazio (2018: Text, Display). Ignazio Sans is a humanistic sans serif designed for the signage of Catania's underground. Born from the epigraphs and the signage that characterized the city across the centuries, the typeface has two optical sizes. Graduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. His graduation typeface was called Gesto.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ruggero Magri Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ Tuscan fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿