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Type foundry from the early part of the 20th century, located in Turin, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the preeminent Italian Rationalist architects of the 1930s and 1940s. See also here. In 1938 he edited the book "Manuale pratico per il disegno dei Caratteri", in which he proposed a rationalist view towards type design. The Landi stretto face he proposed comes with all measurements explicitly spelled out. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type foundry, aka Adlertype, from the middle part of the 20th century, located in Pavona, Italy. Their 1978 catalog includes these typefaces: Forma (sans), Impressum, Times, Modulario, Sirio (sans), Esperia (sans), Victoria, Ionic, Excelso, Bodoni, Aulico, some dingbats, and Akkad (simplified Arabic). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner with Francesco "Mistico" Canovaro at Studio Kmzero in Firenze of the simple bold sans families Duepuntozero (2006-2008) and Arista (2006-2008). He also made the rounded fat sans Bubblebody (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Udine, Italy, who touched me with her beautifully lettered logo design La Tetta di Giulietta (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer in Trieste of the handprinted face Akina (2011). Her name is Elena. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Albert Pinggera
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Milan-based graphic designer and graphic artist. He created the 3d face Platform (2009) and Century Funky (2009, after Century Gothic; free). Behance link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grosseto, Italy-based designer of the Etruscan simulation font AMFalseEtruscan. No downloads. See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Udine-based Italian designer of Cross Sans (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean Loize also wrote on Tallone in 1951: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi. A letter of Bianca Tallone, dated 1982. Samples of the Tallone face (1951): I, II, III, IV, V. Photograph. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian photographer who works in London. He created the alchemic typeface Universe (2013), a custom typeface made for Feel Good Inc. Collective in Genoa, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Alfa Beta is a text book written by Aldo Novarese in 1964. It is especially useful to learn for the first time about the differences between typefaces and about type classification. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kevin Steele explains in 1996: Some sources cite the publication of Cardinal Bembo's De Aetna as 1493 or 1495. And in fact, the design continued to evolve until the 1499 publishing of the spectacular Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Let's not split hairs. Let's celebrate 500 years of Bembo! In the mid fifteenth century printing quickly spread to Italy from Germany, and by the 1470's Venice had became the center of the printing industry, home to over 100 printing companies. Pioneers such as Erhard Ratdolt and Nicolas Jenson had already begun working on adapting the roman alphabet for metal type by the time Aldus Manutius established his press in 1494, with the intention of publishing all the Greek classics. Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) was a printer, entrepreneur, a great ego, and publisher of over 1200 titles. Among the many contributions of Aldus was the popularization of small, portable books. His expensive beautiful books were far from today's paperbacks, mind you. One of the many great talents working for Aldus was Francesco Griffo, a gifted type designer. Griffo created many innovative type designs that are still admired for their beauty and readability. Their collaboration broke up over a copyright dispute, primarily over the ownership of the cursive type face that Griffo developed under the direction of Aldus. Although Aldus even had a papal decree to protect this style of alphabet, it was as difficult then as it is now to protect a typeface design. The alphabet was widely copied, and the style is known as italic, after its country of origin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Concepcion, Chile, who created, together with Valentina Aufiero, Leo Colalillo, Francesca Sperti, and Natale Ventre at Politecnico di Milano, the hybrid typeface Gill Trump (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the stylish and frivolous adaptation called Stile Bodoni (1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian designer of the pay pixel faces iPix (2008) and Pixies (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian designer (b. Rome, 1966) who studied at KABK in Den Haag in 2004, and was at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France, in 2001 and Parsons School of Design in New York in 1999, after a design career in Venice, Milan, and Switzerland. He is teaching type design at UQAM in Montreal. He created Mignonne (2004, aka Mirabelle), which was especially designed for small text setting under modern printing conditions. He also did the condensed Offbeat (1998, T-26, with Marco Tancredi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian architect and graphic designer, b. 1974. He obtained a degree with a thesis on Neue Tipografie and is studying towards a PhD at the University of Palermo (Italy) where he studies countemporary type design, in collaboration with the Department of Typography of the University of Reading. Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton: New professional identity of type designer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alessandro Fulciniti (Axel or Alex Fulton) is the designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Digg (based on the Digg.Com logo), SmartShop, Triple-X, Last Brick (3d brick face), Last Brick Neon, Bubble Gum, Maxxell, Pico (pixel face), Omino (dingbats of men), jelly_fish_1, pixel_runner, red_light_district (dot matrix face), three_am. Son of Statement and Statement are heavy block fonts. Other faces: Acchooga (condensed), Dottic (2008, pixel face), Headshop (2008), Three AM (2008), Red Light District (2008, dot matrix face) and Fat Bit Lova (2008, pixel face), Brooklin Bros (2008, octagonal), Absurd, Dottic (pixel face), Hybrid Boost, Five AM, Futuristica (Bank Gothic-inspired), HeadShop, Americana (American flag-themed glyphs), Elevator (lightbulb signage font), Bombay (Indic simulation), Regent (octagonal, between two horizontal lines), Spaceman (pixel meets kitchen tile), Faster Baby, Fontharrt, Subpixel, Promises, Best-before-end (horizontal stripes), Weekend (fat headline face), Predator's Alphabet, Futures, Magnus (constructivist), Zeppa (great---Far West meets LED), Wide Horizon, Pixelity, Wide Horizon Rounded, Snipers' Font, Gunny (heavy metal stencil), Pinball Special 5, Gallop, Horizon Condensed, Western Zappa (Far West font), Wide Horizon Rounded, Nano Spaceman (nice fat kitchen tile style), Black Sheep, Best-before-end, Black-Sheep, Bubble-Gum, Crazy-Pixel, Faster,-baby!, Gallop, Horizon-Condensed, Last-Brick, Little-Spaceman, Magnus, Pinball-Special-5, Promises, Spaceman, Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Font, Weekend, Zeppa, maxxell, pic. Born in 1975 in Northern Italy, he is a columnist for the Italian web design portal html.it since 2003, who has written extensively on CSS, javascript and web design. Web site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer. Creator (aka Vic) of the iFontMaker font Schizofrenia (2010, scratchy handprinted face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designers of the sans face with diagonal endings called Lino as part of their thesis in 2006. The design was based on an early 1900's type from the Milanese foundry Urania, which was later acquired by Nebiolo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alessandro Pascoli
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Alessandro Segalini
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Alessandro Tartaglia
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Creative Italian designer who managed to draw letters with water (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian dog fanatics Alessandro and Katiusha made a font called "Dalmatian" from BookmanITCbyBT-Demi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan. Italian creator of Alfabeto Fantasia (2011), an art deco display face developed on the basis of Linea during a course. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic design tudent at ISIA Roma in 2013. Creator of the free 6-style slab serif typeface Aleo (2013): Aleo is a contemporary typeface designed as the slab serif companion to the Lato font by Lukasz Dziedzic. Aleo has semi-rounded details and a sleek structure, giving it a strong personality while still keeping readability high. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alessio Leonardi
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Italian creator of the experimental geometric face Covenant (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Passi from the University of Bologna created an elegant Sanskrit font in 1998 called Vinayaka. He has a Mac version. The PC truetype version is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome, who created the display typeface Momo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer. Creator of these typefaces in 2012: Lounge Curve (a wide monospaced techno sans), World Fashion Channel (ornamental caps), ASN (ornamental caps), and Polytype. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AlfaType
| Ex-student at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Italian designer of Equo (2006), a VAG Round style display family which also includes Equo Stencil Caps, Equo Extended, and Equo Extra Fat. Other creations: Shaolin Caps, Stout Caps, Frank-Latin (wide wedge-serifed face), Crasto (serif family). Some fonts are free or have a free test version. Born in Sicily, he spent half of his life in New York City, and studied for four years in The Netherlands. He worked in Lithuania with a group called Alfa60, and is now based in Turin. Later fonts: MM Vinny (a multiple master family designed for use by the cosa nostra), Yorker (based on The NewYorker), MM Charlie, Artissima Condensed (a dada poster font), Romano Grotesque, Futura Passata, Novalis Condensed. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Milan who created a multilayered display face in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry, est. in Milan by Alice Tebaldi in 2011. Calligraphic Griffo (2011) is her interpretation of the style of Francesco Griffo. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Italy, she created the subdued Pomme family of serif typefaces as a student at KABK. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alphabet&Type
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He also has an interest in Startrekkery because he designed the faces Transformers Movie (2009) and Star Trek Future (2009). All these faces are free at Dafont and/or Fontspace. Alternate URL. In 2010, he did the free brush face Fronte del Porto, which is based on the Elia Kazan movie with Marlon Brando entitled On The Waterfront. There is also a commercial side of Alphabet&Type: In 2010, they published the angular family Antares, the bold organic face Minardi (+Collage), and the curly family Vannucci Antico. Metropolis (2010) is an angular face based on the titling of Fritz Lang's movie Capolavoro. Sabrina (2010) is taken directly from the Best movie by Billy Wilder, with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. An American in Paris (2010, or: UnAmericanoAParigi) is based on the font used in the movie by Vincente Minnelly, with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Cleopatra (2011) is a chisel font with a Greek look, based on Cleopatra, the movie by Joseph L. Mankiewkz, starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Il Grinta (2011) is the wedge serif titling font of True Grit, Henry Hathaway's movie starring John Wayne. The beautiful inline face Singapore (2011) after the titling in John Brahm's movie featuring Ava Gardner. Strade di Fuoco (2011) is based on the movie Streets of Fire by Walter Hill, with Diane Lane. Flash Gordon (2011) is based on the famous movie by Mike Hodges, starring Max Von Sydow. Amazing Spider Man (2011) is based on the Spiderman movie by Marc Web which featured Andrew Garfield. Captain America (2011) is based on the movie by Joe Johnston, with Chris Evans. Twilight New Moon (2009) is based on the Twilight movie. Electric Dreams (2011) is based on steve Barron's movie. Tintin (2011) is a comic book face based on Steven Spielberg's 2011 movie. Fantastic Four (2011) is a StarTrek style family that is based on the Tim Story movie. Creations from 2012: Sherlock Holmes, Watson (based on Guy Ritchie's movie), Lucky Luke (after the successful Western comic book series by Morris and Goscinny), Danger Diabolik, Ghost Rider (based on the movie by Mark Steven Johnson, starring Nicolas Cage), Notorious (a brush font based on Notorious, a movie by Hitchcock starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman), Cullen, Flower Header, Dorian Gray (from the movie by Oliver Parker starring Ben Barnes), Snow White (from Rupert Sanders's movie Snow White and The Huntsman). Typefaces made in 2013: Top Gun (an octagonal face based on the movie with Tom Cruise), Manhattan (from Woody Allen's movie). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Alphan Typefaces
| Roberto Baldassari highlights the faces used in "Space: 1999": Countdown (an LCD font by Esselte, 1965), Data 70 (another LCD font by Esselte, 1970), Futura Black, Microgramma, and Futura Medium. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Masters degree communication design student at Politecnico di Milano. Behance link. Creator of the (imaginary) traffic and signage family Mantuarcade (2008-2009) for the city of Mantova, which was inspired by its many arches. This was a project led by Professor Braccaloni. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anatole Type Foundry
| Elena Albertoni (Anatole Type Foundry) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters. Her script typeface Dolce (2005) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. She created Dyna (connected feminine script). Review of Dolce & Dyna. Other faces include Kigara, Scritta (connected calligraphic script), Dolce (2005, connected script), Helene (squarish face), Valora, Schneider, Gregoria (a Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007), Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, eight-style sans family of great utility, codesigned with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included). Acuta (2010) is an all-purpose type family. Scritta Nuova (2011) is a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s. In 2012, she published the plump and curvy script face Molle at Google Web Fonts. Nouvelle Vague (2011) is a connected display script along the lines of Mistral. Spinnaker (2011) is a sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship. Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Italian designer (b. 1990) of the pixel typeface Super Effective (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the handmade experimental typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan, b. 1990, Thiene, Vicenza, who graduated from IED in Milan. Creator of Bax 01 (2012) and the geometric typeface Tracce (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Bergamini
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Turin-based creator of the handprinted typeface Irreality Mark 01 (2012, iFontMaker). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Braccaloni
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Andrea Cerboneschi
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Milan-based creator of typefaces such as Antigua Ferreteira (2013, a heavy grotesk based on old railroad lettering) and OpArt (2013, an op-art typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer and illustrator in Berlin, who created the shadowed display face Pomodorino in 2013 for a restaurant identity. One Have To Coma Again (2013) is an angular display sans typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome, b. 1989. Creator of the modular octagonal typeface Italic (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cormano, Italy-based designer of Palazzo Sans (2011), an ink trap face created for the city of Mantova. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His beautiful typeface Grypho (2012) is based on an italic by Francesco Griffo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman brand designer Andrea Laureti's Stop The Oil logo (2012) is full of visual typographic punch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Big Macca. Italian FontStructor who made Big Macca (2010, a macho mechanical face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian painter and engraver (b. Vicenza or Padova, 1431, d. Mantua, 1506). The font Mantinia (1993, Matthew Carter) is named after him. Typedia link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the hexagonal typeface Slight (2012), the thin experimental typeface Rim (2012) and the thin straight-edged Linea (2012). He studies at NABA University in Milan. In 2013 he designed the alchemic typeface Alter. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information designer in Rome. Creator of the geometric typeface Tri Font (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer, b. 1981. Creator of Elektrodisiac (2005). His web page makes Mozilla/UNIX and Firefox/MacOSX hang. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Andrea Rauch
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Andrea Zanchetta
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Andrea Zucca (Livorno, Italy) created the kitchen tile typeface Looz (2012) and the modular circle-based typeface Spikkio (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angelica Baini was born in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy on January 28, 1990. She is currently double majoring in Graphic Design and Digital Media at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Creator of the alchemic typeface Marina (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome. Creator of the Peignotian typeface Clavecin Capital Serif (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based designer of Mantua (2012, a sans and serif pair of typefaces) and Odita (2012, a geometric art deco news and fashion magazine made for a university project at Politecnico di Milano). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan who created the great faces Mantua Serif (2009) and Mantua Sans (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Anna Ronchi
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Author of "Le maître de Garamond" (Editions Stock, 2002), a beautiful book on the life and death of Antoine Augereau, who was Claude Garamond's teacher and mentor. Anne Cuneo was born in 1936 in Italy and lives in Zürich. Comment by Guy Schockaert: Le 24 décembre 1534, place Maubert, accusé d'hérésie, Antoine Augereau est pendu, son corps et ses mains brûlées. Homme de lettres, érudit, théologien, Antoine Augereau était un grand imprimeur, éditeur et graveur de caractères typographiques. Il modela ceux dont nous nous servons encore aujourd'hui, et avec Clément Marot, inventa l'usage des accents et de la cédille. La publication du Miroir de l'âme de Marguerite de Navarre lui coûtera la vie. La Sorbonne, gardienne jalouse d'une orthodoxie figée, désapprouve la pensée de la soeur de François Ier, mais ne peut la condamner. Antoine Augereau paiera pour elle. Racontée par le plus célèbre de ses disciples, l'histoire passionnante et émouvante d'un humaniste prêt à mourir pour défendre ses idées. UN livre à lire absolument et à offrir. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer. Creator of a commissioned typeface, Uni Type (2012) for the annual report of Unicancer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pesaro-based printer. For his typefaces, see Nuovo saggio di caratteri e vignette della tipografia di Annesio Nobili in Pesaro (Pesaro, 1834). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Several such types came out Nicolas Jenson's printing workshop set up by nicolas Jenson in 1468. That first antiqua typeface was used in De Evangelica Praeparatione in 1470. Jenson died in 1480 at the age of 60, but many would take up that style between 1470 and 1600. The Venice connection led quite naturally to the other name for the type style, Venetian. Occasionally, the name old style is also used but that refers to a later style, the aldine or garalde. Well-known Venetian typefaces include ITC Berkeley Oldstyle, Brioso Pro, Centaur, (Adobe) Jenson, Hightower, Kennerly, Schneidler, Nicolas Jenson SG, Phinney Jenson, Stempel Schneidler, Verona, Abrams Venetian, Lutetia, Jersey, Lynton, Spira. It is easy to recognize Venetian types, not just from the uniform thickness and semi-calligraphic look, but also by the small x-height, small counters, tall ascenders, overly wide HMN, sloped cross-bar on the "e", negative axis on the "o", and two roof serifs on the M. Additional literature: Martin Silvertant's history of type, from which the analytic image is borrowed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Basoli (1774-1848) was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, thereafter gradually making a name for himself as a specialist decorator and scene-painter. Basoli did a great deal of scene-painting and production design for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Beginning in 1803, he taught at the Accademia in Bologna where he had studied, and was appointed Professor of Ornament there. He published an ornamental alphabet in Bologna in 1839 called Alfabeto Pittorico, ossia raccolta di pensieri pittorici composti di oggetti comincianti dalle singole lettere alfabetiche (Pictorial Alphabet, or, a collection of pictorial thoughts composed of objects beginning with the individual letters of the alphabet). Each letter in this fantastic lithographic alphabet features a surreal architectural form. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian printer working in Rome from 1515 to 1567. He got the italic type by Arrighi, the revival of which is Monotype Blado, by Stanley Morison (1923). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Born and raised in Sassuolo, Italy, he studied in Reggio Emilia, Bristol and Reading. He now works as a type designer in California. Speaker at Typecon 2012 in Milwaukee. Designer of Ciccio and the sans face Micerino (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, he made Labyrinthus, a multilined all caps family: inspect each glyph and note that there is one point of entrance and one exit. Still in 2011, the decorative family Atlantide and the futuristic all caps face Silver Chisel appeared. In 2012, he designed the techno family Steel. | |
Italian creator (b. 1991) of the condensed octagonal techno font First (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Antonio Moro
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Italian scribe from Perugia, who published Opera Dianto Nella Quale Vedrete Molte Caratteri di Lettere ca. 1600-1615 in Perugia. See also Columbia University's site. Scans: I, II. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fifteenth century Italian printer. His handwriting inspired many faces, such as Petrarch (ATF) and Bologna (1946, Stephenson Blake). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefaces: ITC Serif Gothic (designed in 1972 by Herb Lubalin and Tony DeSpigna for the International Typeface Corporation, it is a "cold" typeface), Playgirl, ITC Lubalin Graph (with Herb Lubalin), Fattoni, ITC Korinna (1974, with Ed Benguiat), WNET. FontShop link. Another MyFonts link. Logo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Venice-based foundry headed by Antonio Zatta, 1757-1797. Their work can be found in Caratteri e vignette, o sieno, Fregi della nuova fonderia di Antonio Zatta e Figli tipografi, calcografi, e libraj veneti (A. Zatta, Venezia, 1793). That book shows elegant garalde families listed by size as Testin, Garamoncin, Garamoncino, Garamon, Filosofia, Silvietto, Silvio, and Test d'Aldo. For further typefaces, see Saggio dei caratteri, segni celesti, di matematica, algebra, numeri tagliati, ed altro / della nuova fonderia di Antonio Zatta q:m Giacomo tipografo, calcografo, e librajo veneto. N.\2070 III (1799). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Panda Ryuji. Born in Rome in 1995, Arcangelo created the simple hand-printed typeface Arcangelo's Words (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German printer (b. Köln, d. 1476), who left Mainz with Conrad Sweynheym to establish Italy's first printing press, in the monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco. There, they published three books, Cicero's De Oratore, the Opera of Lactantius, and St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. In 1467, they set up a press in the De Massimi palace in Rome, from where they published 50 more books. Revivals of their faces, blends between humanist and blackletter, include the Subiaco font done by Ashendene Press in 1902, and the scanfont 1467 Pannartz Latin by GLC. Nicholas Fabian on Pannartz. Catholic Encyclopedia. Literature: Burger: The Printers and Publishers of the XV Century (London, 1902); Fumagalli: Dictionnaire géogrique d'Italie pour servir à l'histoire de l'imprimerie dans ce pays (Florence, 1905); Löffler: Sweinheim und Pannartz in Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde, IX (Bielefeld, 1905), and Die ersten deutschen Drucker in Italien in Historisch-politische Blätter, CXLIII (Munich, 1909). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
An Italian graphic designer in Paris, b. 1983. Creator of Arnold (2009, outline face). Another link.Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Milan. Italian designer of Charles Stencil (2007), which was created during the advanced Type Design course at PoliDesign (Politecnico di Milano). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bafio Font Page
| From Verona, Italy, Fabio Corubolo's free Kitch Liebe font is a mix of letters from various places. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Brescia, Italy. Behance link. She created an expressive typographic portrait of Beethoven in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belle Lettere is the hub for calligraphy in Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Terni, Italy-based creator the monospaced alchemic typeface Chroma (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BelTypo
| Sergio Lelli designed the Mozart (italic) and StravinskijCondensed (sans serif) families. Based in Bologna, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian creator of the techno face Pronto (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Writing Master at the University of Siena, Italy, ca. 1544-1560. The only known surviving exemplars of his writing are twenty vellum leaves bound in a manuscript copybook, dated 4 February 1545, dedicated to Edward Raleigh, an Englishman (Signor Odoardo Ralyg Gentilhuomo). Handwriting instructions (by James Pickering) based on Cataneo's work. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bibliologia: An International Journal of Bibliography, Library Science, History of Typography and the Book is published by Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali in Pisa under the editorship of Fabrizio Serra. The first volume appeared in 2006. About 64 Euros per year subscription. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the primitive hand-printed typeface BKappa93. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Boba Fonts
| Star Wars fonts: all made by Boba Fonts (Davide Canavero, Italy) in 1998-1999: Aurek-BeshHand, EPISODE-I, ShadowofXizor, Star Logo fonts (3 kinds), StarJediSpecialEdition, StarJedi, StarJediHollow, StarJediOutline, StarJediLogoDoubleLine1, StarJediLogoDoubleLine2, StarJediLogoMonoLine, TIEWing, Aurek-Besh, Bumbazoid (bubblegum and balloon font). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Skyje lin. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Firenze-based foundry. Their work can be found in Campione dei caratteri, fregi e vignette della fonderia tipografica dei fratelli Boyer e c. stabilita in Firenze (Firenze : Dai torchj di Gregorio Chiari e figlj, 1832). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of Yagiza (2001, techno face), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the spurred typeface Storico (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer at T-26 who made the Cubica and Orgasmia families in 2000. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bruce Rogers
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Bruce Rogers: Itaian Printers in Venice
| An essay by Bruce Rogers on Italian printers in Venice in the renaissance period. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bruno Capezzuoli
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Italian artist, writer, designer, architect, graphic designer, educator, and philosopher, who proposed one font, Essential, in 1935, consisting of the minimum parts of letters needed for readability. His principles were lucidity, leanness, exactitude and humor. He was part of a team at Nebiolo (with Giancarlo Illiprandi, Franco Grignani, Ilio Negri, Till Neuburg, Luigi Oriani and Pino Tovaglia) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. Born in 1907 in Milan, he died there in 1998. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
BrushScriptX-Italic
| Maurizio Loreti's type 1 brushscript font, BrushScriptX-Italic, with all files needed to use it in TeX. It was slightly modified by Barta karoly (2010), with updates here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bunker
| Marco Comastri (Bunker) is located in Modena, Italy. His design studio does some custom font work, among many other things. Spaghetti Grafica poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BuyMyFonts (or: BMF)
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In 2002 he founded Buy My Fonts that produces typefaces for corporate applications and also for standard use. Speaker at ATypI in Rome in 2002. In 2004 he published his book From the Cow to the Typewriter: the (true) History of Writing. The Alberobanana project tries to suggest an alphabet that could have been. In 2007, he started the pixel font project BMF Elettriche. Available from MyFonts, it includes 648 styles. Speaker at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. Linotype link. Typefaces.de site. His fonts include
FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Daniel Quinn's calligraphy shop in Firenze shows nice examples of these hands (names in Italian): Onciale, Maiuscola Insulare, Minuscola Insulare, Carolina, Gotico Antico, Textura Quadrata, Capitali Gotiche, Beneventana, Rotunda, Capitali Rotunda, Bastarda Cancelleresca, Batarde Français, Fraktur Tedesca, Capitali Bastarde, Cadel, Capitali Longobarde, Foundational. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cameron Moll is a type specialist. He writes extensively on type design and typography. He sells EPS format glyphs based on the work of master Italian calligrapher M. Giovambattista Palatino (ca. 1515–1575), as featured in Libro di M. Giovambattista Palatino Cittadino Romano, published in Rome around 1550 AD. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Milan. Behance link. Creator of the Stapler Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Caratteri
| Exposition on type and symbolism in type, by Marco Anelli, held from November 6, 2008 until June 31, 2009, in Hlam Design, Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Rovato, Brescia, Italy, b. 1976. She cofounded Studio Charlie with Gabriele Rigamonti and Vittorio Turla, with whom she codesigned the futuristic Stereotype family (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian foundry in Torino. Scan of a specimen book cover, 1872. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From 1998 to 2001 he taught History of Visual Communication and Contemporary Art History at Naples' Istituto superiore di design. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about "The new typography and Campo Grafico; the debate on typography in Italian magazines in the 1930s". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the droopy-serifed New Forty Five (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer at Sesame Workshop in New York City, who created Brandless Typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
cb fonts
| From 1997-1999, Turin-based Claudio Beccari created his cb fonts (metafont) for Greek by adapting Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. The cb-fonts are now the official fonts for the Greek option of the BABEL package. They are very complete and highly recommended. Type 1 versions here. In 2004, he added the CB Coptic family (metafont), which was based on files created in 1995 by Serge Rosmorduc. The type 1 fonts were made by using TeXtrace and pfaedit by Apostolos Syropoulos. The fonts: glic0700, glic0800, glic1000, glic1200, glic1382, glic1659, glic1991, glic2389, glic2866, glic3440, glic4128, glii0700, glii0800, glii1000, glii1200, glii1382, glii1659, glii1991, glii2389, glii2866, glii3440, glii4128, glin0700, glin0800, glin1000, glin1200, glin1382, glin1659, glin1991, glin2389, glin2866, glin3440, glin4128, glio0700, glio0800, glio1000, glio1200, glio1382, glio1659, glio1991, glio2389, glio2866, glio3440, glio4128, gliu0700, gliu0800, gliu1000, gliu1200, gliu1382, gliu1659, gliu1991, gliu2389, gliu2866, gliu3440, gliu4128, gljc0700, gljc0800, gljc1000, gljc1200, gljc1382, gljc1659, gljc1991, gljc2389, gljc2866, gljc3440, gljc4128, gljn0700, gljn0800, gljn1000, gljn1200, gljn1382, gljn1659, gljn1991, gljn2389, gljn2866, gljn3440, gljn4128, gljo0700, gljo0800, gljo1000, gljo1200, gljo1382, gljo1659, gljo1991, gljo2389, gljo2866, gljo3440, gljo4128, glmc0700, glmc0800, glmc1000, glmc1200, glmc1382, glmc1659, glmc1991, glmc2389, glmc2866, glmc3440, glmc4128, glmi0700, glmi0800, glmi1000, glmi1200, glmi1382, glmi1659, glmi1991, glmi2389, glmi2866, glmi3440, glmi4128, glmn0700, glmn0800, glmn1000, glmn1200, glmn1382, glmn1659, glmn1991, glmn2389, glmn2866, glmn3440, glmn4128, glmo0700, glmo0800, glmo1000, glmo1200, glmo1382, glmo1659, glmo1991, glmo2389, glmo2866, glmo3440, glmo4128, glmu0700, glmu0800, glmu1000, glmu1200, glmu1382, glmu1659, glmu1991, glmu2389, glmu2866, glmu3440, glmu4128, gltc0700, gltc0800, gltc1000, gltc1200, gltc1382, gltc1659, gltc1991, gltc2389, gltc2866, gltc3440, gltc4128, gltn0700, gltn0800, gltn1000, gltn1200, gltn1382, gltn1659, gltn1991, gltn2389, gltn2866, gltn3440, gltn4128, glto0700, glto0800, glto1000, glto1200, glto1382, glto1659, glto1991, glto2389, glto2866, glto3440, glto4128, glwc0700, glwc0800, glwc1000, glwc1200, glwc1382, glwc1659, glwc1991, glwc2389, glwc2866, glwc3440, glwc4128, glwi0700, glwi0800, glwi1000, glwi1200, glwi1382, glwi1659, glwi1991, glwi2389, glwi2866, glwi3440, glwi4128, glwn0700, glwn0800, glwn1000, glwn1200, glwn1382, glwn1659, glwn1991, glwn2389, glwn2866, glwn3440, glwn4128, glwo0700, glwo0800, glwo1000, glwo1200, glwo1382, glwo1659, glwo1991, glwo2389, glwo2866, glwo3440, glwo4128, glwu0700, glwu0800, glwu1000, glwu1200, glwu1382, glwu1659, glwu1991, glwu2389, glwu2866, glwu3440, glwu4128, glxc0700, glxc0800, glxc1000, glxc1200, glxc1382, glxc1659, glxc1991, glxc2389, glxc2866, glxc3440, glxc4128, glxi0700, glxi0800, glxi1000, glxi1200, glxi1382, glxi1659, glxi1991, glxi2389, glxi2866, glxi3440, glxi4128, glxn0700, glxn0800, glxn1000, glxn1200, glxn1382, glxn1659, glxn1991, glxn2389, glxn2866, glxn3440, glxn4128, glxo0700, glxo0800, glxo1000, glxo1200, glxo1382, glxo1659, glxo1991, glxo2389, glxo2866, glxo3440, glxo4128, glxu0700, glxu0800, glxu1000, glxu1200, glxu1382, glxu1659, glxu1991, glxu2389, glxu2866, glxu3440, glxu4128, gmmn0500, gmmn0600, gmmn0700, gmmn0800, gmmn0900, gmmn1000, gmmn1095, gmmn1200, gmmn1440, gmmn1728, gmmn2074, gmmn2488, gmmn2986, gmmn3583, gmmo0500, gmmo0600, gmmo0700, gmmo0800, gmmo0900, gmmo1000, gmmo1095, gmmo1200, gmmo1440, gmmo1728, gmmo2074, gmmo2488, gmmo2986, gmmo3583, gmtr0500, gmtr0600, gmtr0700, gmtr0800, gmtr0900, gmtr1000, gmtr1095, gmtr1200, gmtr1440, gmtr1728, gmtr2074, gmtr2488, gmtr2986, gmtr3583, gmxn0500, gmxn0600, gmxn0700, gmxn0800, gmxn0900, gmxn1000, gmxn1095, gmxn1200, gmxn1440, gmxn1728, gmxn2074, gmxn2488, gmxn2986, gmxn3583, gmxo0500, gmxo0600, gmxo0700, gmxo0800, gmxo0900, gmxo1000, gmxo1095, gmxo1200, gmxo1440, gmxo1728, gmxo2074, gmxo2488, gmxo2986, gmxo3583, gomc0500, gomc0600, gomc0700, gomc0800, gomc0900, gomc1000, gomc1095, gomc1200, gomc1440, gomc1728, gomc2074, gomc2488, gomc2986, gomc3583, gomi0500, gomi0600, gomi0700, gomi0800, gomi0900, gomi1000, gomi1095, gomi1200, gomi1440, gomi1728, gomi2074, gomi2488, gomi2986, gomi3583, gomn0500, gomn0600, gomn0700, gomn0800, gomn0900, gomn1000, gomn1095, gomn1200, gomn1440, gomn1728, gomn2074, gomn2488, gomn2986, gomn3583, gomo0500, gomo0600, gomo0700, gomo0800, gomo0900, gomo1000, gomo1095, gomo1200, gomo1440, gomo1728, gomo2074, gomo2488, gomo2986, gomo3583, gomu0500, gomu0600, gomu0700, gomu0800, gomu0900, gomu1000, gomu1095, gomu1200, gomu1440, gomu1728, gomu2074, gomu2488, gomu2986, gomu3583, goxc0500, goxc0600, goxc0700, goxc0800, goxc0900, goxc1000, goxc1095, goxc1200, goxc1440, goxc1728, goxc2074, goxc2488, goxc2986, goxc3583, goxi0500, goxi0600, goxi0700, goxi0800, goxi0900, goxi1000, goxi1095, goxi1200, goxi1440, goxi1728, goxi2074, goxi2488, goxi2986, goxi3583, goxn0500, goxn0600, goxn0700, goxn0800, goxn0900, goxn1000, goxn1095, goxn1200, goxn1440, goxn1728, goxn2074, goxn2488, goxn2986, goxn3583, goxo0500, goxo0600, goxo0700, goxo0800, goxo0900, goxo1000, goxo1095, goxo1200, goxo1440, goxo1728, goxo2074, goxo2488, goxo2986, goxo3583, goxu0500, goxu0600, goxu0700, goxu0800, goxu0900, goxu1000, goxu1095, goxu1200, goxu1440, goxu1728, goxu2074, goxu2488, goxu2986, goxu3583, grbl0500, grbl0600, grbl0700, grbl0800, grbl0900, grbl1000, grbl1095, grbl1200, grbl1440, grbl1728, grbl2074, grbl2488, grbl2986, grbl3583, grmc0500, grmc0600, grmc0700, grmc0800, grmc0900, grmc1000, grmc1095, grmc1200, grmc1440, grmc1728, grmc2074, grmc2488, grmc2986, grmc3583, grmi0500, grmi0600, grmi0700, grmi0800, grmi0900, grmi1000, grmi1095, grmi1200, grmi1440, grmi1728, grmi2074, grmi2488, grmi2986, grmi3583, grml0500, grml0600, grml0700, grml0800, grml0900, grml1000, grml1095, grml1200, grml1440, grml1728, grml2074, grml2488, grml2986, grml3583, grmn0500, grmn0600, grmn0700, grmn0800, grmn0900, grmn1000, grmn1095, grmn1200, grmn1440, grmn1728, grmn2074, grmn2488, grmn2986, grmn3583, grmo0500, grmo0600, grmo0700, grmo0800, grmo0900, grmo1000, grmo1095, grmo1200, grmo1440, grmo1728, grmo2074, grmo2488, grmo2986, grmo3583, grmu0500, grmu0600, grmu0700, grmu0800, grmu0900, grmu1000, grmu1095, grmu1200, grmu1440, grmu1728, grmu2074, grmu2488, grmu2986, grmu3583, grxc0500, grxc0600, grxc0700, grxc0800, grxc0900, grxc1000, grxc1095, grxc1200, grxc1440, grxc1728, grxc2074, grxc2488, grxc2986, grxc3583, grxi0500, grxi0600, grxi0700, grxi0800, grxi0900, grxi1000, grxi1095, grxi1200, grxi1440, grxi1728, grxi2074, grxi2488, grxi2986, grxi3583, grxl0500, grxl0600, grxl0700, grxl0800, grxl0900, grxl1000, grxl1095, grxl1200, grxl1440, grxl1728, grxl2074, grxl2488, grxl2986, grxl3583, grxn0500, grxn0600, grxn0700, grxn0800, grxn0900, grxn1000, grxn1095, grxn1200, grxn1440, grxn1728, grxn2074, grxn2488, grxn2986, grxn3583, grxo0500, grxo0600, grxo0700, grxo0800, grxo0900, grxo1000, grxo1095, grxo1200, grxo1440, grxo1728, grxo2074, grxo2488, grxo2986, grxo3583, grxu0500, grxu0600, grxu0700, grxu0800, grxu0900, grxu1000, grxu1095, grxu1200, grxu1440, grxu1728, grxu2074, grxu2488, grxu2986, grxu3583, gsma0500, gsma0600, gsma0700, gsma0800, gsma0900, gsma1000, gsma1095, gsma1200, gsma1440, gsma1728, gsma2074, gsma2488, gsma2986, gsma3583, gsmc0500, gsmc0600, gsmc0700, gsmc0800, gsmc0900, gsmc1000, gsmc1095, gsmc1200, gsmc1440, gsmc1728, gsmc2074, gsmc2488, gsmc2986, gsmc3583, gsme0500, gsme0600, gsme0700, gsme0800, gsme0900, gsme1000, gsme1095, gsme1200, gsme1440, gsme1728, gsme2074, gsme2488, gsme2986, gsme3583, gsmi0500, gsmi0600, gsmi0700, gsmi0800, gsmi0900, gsmi1000, gsmi1095, gsmi1200, gsmi1440, gsmi1728, gsmi2074, gsmi2488, gsmi2986, gsmi3583, gsmn0500, gsmn0600, gsmn0700, gsmn0800, gsmn0900, gsmn1000, gsmn1095, gsmn1200, gsmn1440, gsmn1728, gsmn2074, gsmn2488, gsmn2986, gsmn3583, gsmo0500, gsmo0600, gsmo0700, gsmo0800, gsmo0900, gsmo1000, gsmo1095, gsmo1200, gsmo1440, gsmo1728, gsmo2074, gsmo2488, gsmo2986, gsmo3583, gsmu0500, gsmu0600, gsmu0700, gsmu0800, gsmu0900, gsmu1000, gsmu1095, gsmu1200, gsmu1440, gsmu1728, gsmu2074, gsmu2488, gsmu2986, gsmu3583, gsxa0500, gsxa0600, gsxa0700, gsxa0800, gsxa0900, gsxa1000, gsxa1095, gsxa1200, gsxa1440, gsxa1728, gsxa2074, gsxa2488, gsxa2986, gsxa3583, gsxc0500, gsxc0600, gsxc0700, gsxc0800, gsxc0900, gsxc1000, gsxc1095, gsxc1200, gsxc1440, gsxc1728, gsxc2074, gsxc2488, gsxc2986, gsxc3583, gsxe0500, gsxe0600, gsxe0700, gsxe0800, gsxe0900, gsxe1000, gsxe1095, gsxe1200, gsxe1440, gsxe1728, gsxe2074, gsxe2488, gsxe2986, gsxe3583, gsxi0500, gsxi0600, gsxi0700, gsxi0800, gsxi0900, gsxi1000, gsxi1095, gsxi1200, gsxi1440, gsxi1728, gsxi2074, gsxi2488, gsxi2986, gsxi3583, gsxn0500, gsxn0600, gsxn0700, gsxn0800, gsxn0900, gsxn1000, gsxn1095, gsxn1200, gsxn1440, gsxn1728, gsxn2074, gsxn2488, gsxn2986, gsxn3583, gsxo0500, gsxo0600, gsxo0700, gsxo0800, gsxo0900, gsxo1000, gsxo1095, gsxo1200, gsxo1440, gsxo1728, gsxo2074, gsxo2488, gsxo2986, gsxo3583, gsxu0500, gsxu0600, gsxu0700, gsxu0800, gsxu0900, gsxu1000, gsxu1095, gsxu1200, gsxu1440, gsxu1728, gsxu2074, gsxu2488, gsxu2986, gsxu3583, gttc0500, gttc0600, gttc0700, gttc0800, gttc0900, gttc1000, gttc1095, gttc1200, gttc1440, gttc1728, gttc2074, gttc2488, gttc2986, gttc3583, gtti0500, gtti0600, gtti0700, gtti0800, gtti0900, gtti1000, gtti1095, gtti1200, gtti1440, gtti1728, gtti2074, gtti2488, gtti2986, gtti3583, gttn0500, gttn0600, gttn0700, gttn0800, gttn0900, gttn1000, gttn1095, gttn1200, gttn1440, gttn1728, gttn2074, gttn2488, gttn2986, gttn3583, gtto0500, gtto0600, gtto0700, gtto0800, gtto0900, gtto1000, gtto1095, gtto1200, gtto1440, gtto1728, gtto2074, gtto2488, gtto2986, gtto3583, gttu0500, gttu0600, gttu0700, gttu0800, gttu0900, gttu1000, gttu1095, gttu1200, gttu1440, gttu1728, gttu2074, gttu2488, gttu2986, gttu3583. 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Italian calligrapher who drew a few calligraphic alphabets in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of a brush alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual designer in Milano, who created the (virtual) type and identity for Agfa in 2012 starting from their old logo. Around the same time, Mirko Landi, another designer in Milan, did a similar thing. I wonder if they were not doing a school assignment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Milan, who graduated from the Politecnico. In 2011, she showed her techno face Aspes on Behance. It was made a few years earlier during her studies. I am a bit confused as this photograph shows a face called Aspes designed by Bisiac, Caroni and Comelli during their studies at ISIA Urbino from 2003-2004. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cagliari, Italy-based designer of the free art deco display face CS Blocks (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the pixel script face Graphicavita (2010). Chiara lives in Venice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chicks and Types, aka Sketch This Out, is a virtual artist in Firenze, Italy. He created a few posters in 2012, such as Isabelle & Times New Roman, Heather & Museo, and Carla & Din. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian type and graphic designer who graduated in 2005 from the Università La Sapienza in Rome (under Silvana Amato and Giovanni Lussu) with a thesis that developed a new text type family, Sinus, comprising Sinus Normal, Sinus Italic and Sinus Maiuscoletto. This type family was designed for small print. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1984) of Hobbit Script (2005), based on a font used in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Civico13
| Italian free font outfit based in Torino. Their creations include Fetta di Polenta Extra Narrow (2008) and Sweetest (2008), both based on lettering used by architects on drawings, and made by Andrea Zanchetta. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cláudio Rocha
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Creator (b. 1989, Italy) of Claire's Hand (2012) and Claire's Hand 3 (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claudia Ripanti (Bologna, Italy) used the outlines of DIN Black to make the ornamental Flowers typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claudio Beccari
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Claudio Beccari
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Originally from Turin, Italy, Claudio Gomboli now lives in Osaka. He is the creator of a commercial icon font called World Outside in 2012. Creative Market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer from Modena, Italy, b. 1969. Designer of these fonts:
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Italian digital artist who made the sans display face Etrusca (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claudius Marcus
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Trieste-based printer. For their typefaces, see Saggio di caratteri, fregi e vignette della stamperia di Colombo Coen (Trieste, 1858). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Motion graphics designer in Mona, Italy, who created the signage typeface Makita (2013), which he calls a power tool font. It was made during for a type design class at Politecnico di Milano. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian grpahic designer. Alternate URL. Creator of the simple handprinted font Student F3 (2007) and the informal caps face cippo xc (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Firenze in 1969. Cofounder with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti of the Italian design firm in Firenze called Studio Kmzero. He codesigned some typefaces there such as Arsenale White (2009). Targa Monospace (2002) is a sans inspired by italian vehicle registration plates. It has an handmade version (Targa Hand) that can be used for comic book lettering. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Cosimo Torsoli (Florence, Italy) created Codryceps (2012), a caps face that was inspired by a video from the BBC called Planet Earth. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman designer of the circle-based monoline logotype font Diadema (2012) and of the bilined typeface Arianna (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Bologna. Creator of the experimental face Zothik Bold (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dadakool
| Dadakool (or DK) was founded by Parisian Gregory Flajszer and Padovan Alex Mazzuccato Mezzoccoli in 2005, after they met each other during their studies in Paris. They created the 3d experimental faces DK01 (2005) and DK Stencil (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Catania-based creator of the ornamental caps alphabets Fattidarte Pills (2012) and Ich Bin Ein Berliner (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based designer of Double Chocolate Brownie (2012, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman type designer. Creator of the typewriter / keyboard faces Mela+Tipo and Mela+Tondo (2010), which were executed while she was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a graphic design student in Rome, Daniele Bruno designed the alchemic typeface family I Shut My Eyes In Order To See (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type designer from Viterbo who is working on Guido (2010), a free typeface based on the Italian gothic letterforms (roughly speaking, a blend between blackletter and chancery), or gotica corsiva (used in the fourteenth century for books such as Dante's Divine Comedy). Flickr page. Capo studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Firenze. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian architect in Viterbo who is interested in typography. In 2009, he tried to design a typeface and called it Pince-Nez. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital and graphic artist in Bologna, Italy, who runs DNDesign. He created an Escher-inspired alphabet called Impossible (2010). Flickr page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the free sans caps typeface Michelucci (2013). He says it was made from photos made in the Firenze Santa Maria Novella station: The station was designed in 1932 by a group of architects known as the Gruppo Toscano (Tuscan Group) of which Giovanni Michelucci and Italo Gamberini were among the members; the building was constructed between 1932 and 1934. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A native of Italy, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in Design of Visual Communication in 2001. Currently, he is a graphic designer living and working in NYC, where he works as Design Director at FutureBrand New York. Creator of Lady First (2010, an informal sans typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rome-based designer of the experimental typeface Positive (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian guy, b. 1992, who lives in Civitavecchia near Rome. He used FontStruct to make Skydon (2010), an artificial language face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student in Torino, Italy, whose first font is the geometric monoline sans face Cosmic Sans (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
David Terzano
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Creator of the minimal sans face Albertino (2008), and the monoline sans face Giorgino (2011). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davide Canavero
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Italian creator of Davide China (2011, iFontMaker), a scratchy handprinted face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davide Di Mattina
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Italian designer of the handwriting fonts Rusty Battersea (2005, based on AF Battersea), mmfh30 (2004), Malamela (2003), Malamela's Old Typewriter no12004, based upon an old Olivetti), Photocopied Futura (2005), Stamped Palatino (2005), and Malamela Freehand 3.0 (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type and graphic designer in Genova. His first typeface is Hono (2012), the final project of the Corso di Alta Formazione in Type Design at the Politecnico in Milan. Hono is a 4-font open source system that includes Hono Mono, Hono Sans, Hono Serif and Hono Display. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer from Trento, b. 1986, now in Milan. Creator of Material Sans (2008, sans based on Luciano Perondi's Zotico and an itsy bitsy on Eric Olson's Klavika), Graphic Line (2009, a severe slab serif). Behance link. Flickr site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davide Paoletti (Fossano, Italy) created the geometric typeface Ballons (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student of Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, who was born in Trento, Italy. He is heavily into sup-fitting geometric experimental typefaces that flirt with the optical limits. One example is his NMTCS typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Davide Zomer (Trento, Italy) created the modular typeface REZN7399 (2012) during his studies at the academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In 2013, he designed the alchemic typeface TMRRW and the blackletter typeface Voelkisch XXI. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Design Buero
| Albert Pinggera, who runs Design Buero in St. Leonhard in Passeier in Italy, is a Tirolian-Italian type designer (b. 1971). He created FFLetterGothic (Text and Mono) and FF Strada (2002) at FontFont. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, he currently runs a type and design shop in Italy. In 2003, FF Strada won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Design Lab SRL, Milan
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Design.it
| Design.it is the graphic design company of Stefano Meriggi in Milan. Creators of Genova (1997, sans), Type Studio 01 (2000, techno), Desroches (1987, techno), Design.it (2000, liquid), SAT (2000, monoline sans). No sales or downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Milan-based motion graphics studio with a side interest in typography. One of their typefaces is the squarish tecno face Hodino (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DF Type (or: Fischbachpresse)
| DF Type is the Austrian foundry of Giovanni de Faccio and Lui Karner. Giovanni de Faccio (a calligrapher born in Venice in 1966) and Lui Karner made the very classy text family called Rialto (1999), a humanistic antiqua. Rialto won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Soon to release a sans serif family called Linea. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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DJ Andrea Esu
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Italian designer of the connected car logi script font Alfaowner Script (2003). The font info says that the font is the copyright of Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer from Naples of Leftist Mono Sans and Serif (2005) and Twentytwelve Slab (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka D128 design. Italian creator of the scratchy pencil font Domenico 128 (2012) and of Warrior's Destiny (2012), Splash 180 (2012, grunge), Heart (2012), Art4 Symbian Handwriting (2012), Breaking Time (2012, a glaz krak face), Triangular HD (2012) and No Name (2012, graffiti font). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at NABA (Nuova Accademia Belle Arti) in Milan. Creator of the elegant bilined typeface Jadore (2012) and of the rune simulation font Quarz 974 (2012). In 2012, he started his own foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence-based designer who proposed an identity for the city of Rome in 2011 which included a minimalist typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tarmsaft and DincType archives. Plus a tutorial in Italian on font creation via Photoshop and Fontographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
du2
| Davide Di Mattina (b. 1980) lives in Milan and runs du2 design. He created the fat handprinted outline font called Dudufont (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Paul Haeberli's free C code (1989) for transforming mouse positions into dynamic (and calligraphic) strokes. A free port to OpenGL and GLUT (and Mac OSX) by Nicholas Zambetti is here. Zambetti lives in Ivrea, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Monotype in 1927 with Francesco Pastonchi of Pastonchi, a beautiful humanist face with small bracketed serifs. Pastonchi MT is available from Agfa-Monotype. The Monotype version of Pastonchi is due to Robin Nicholas. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director at Leo Burnett in Milan. Creator of the ornamental caps face Ritheart (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The late Father Edward Catich was a talented and productive calligrapher who has published several fine books on the making of Roman inscriptions. He researched the Trajan inscriptions on the Trajan column in Rome, and is known for his clear and classy calligraphic "Petrarch Script". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the nice scratch font Psychotika (2007). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontStructor in Bolzano, Italy, who created Eastwave (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Elena Albertoni
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Italian graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading in 2012. Her graduation typeface is the multi-script Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde (2012), created for Latin, Greek and Armenian. My first reaction is that the curviness and roundness of the Latin part is due to the desire to harmonize with the two other scripts. In addition, all styles are falred out near the top, which gives the result a comic book feel. In fact, Elena mentions that children's books was one of the main motivations. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer and illustrator in London. She created Feather Sans (2011), a sans family with calligraphic influences. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Modena, graphic designer Elisa Bavieri now lives in Rome. She created the display typeface Chance in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who created a great circle and compass-based monogram in 1998-1999 at ISIA Urbino. See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome. She created the condensed typeface Humoral (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer in Bergamo, Italy, who created the slinky typeface Circle (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Conidi obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. Her graduation typeface is Nabil, a hookish serifed face that covers Latin and Arabic. It won a bronze medal at the 2009 EDAwards. Emanuela joined Fontsmith in 2008 after studying typeface design. With a background in Graphic Design, experience in hot-metal type hand composition and letterpress printing, she is passionate about typographic history, 19th century typefaces and Arabic typography. In 2009, Mitja Miklavcic, Jason Smith and Emanuela codesigned the slab serif family FS Rufus. She codesigned the legible sans family FS Me with Mitja Miklavic, Phil Garnham, Jason Smith and Fernando Mello (Fontsmith). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who has an MA from the London College of Communication. He created the sheared grid typeface Trius (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Emanuele Fabrizioli
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Roman graphic designer who created the signage typeface Fonticoli (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, b. 1988, who is in the Masters program in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano in 2012. In 2012, he created Indian Nocturne and Null:Eins (a horizontally-striped typeface family). Null:Eins was originally designed for the cover of Diego De Silva's book I did not understand nothing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Salerno, Italy-based graphic designer and digital artist. Creator of VXY (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Additions in 2009: Chauncey, Sixto (ultra fat octagonal face made at FontStruct; obese geometry in his own words), Proclama (a cold war font), Lamina. Fonts from 2010: Bromance (upright connected script), Oliva (open face style), Podio (3d), Thuring (athletic lettering), Budino and Budino Kiri (fat counterless), Escaptionist (pixel), Riba (2010, a ribbon font). Fonts from 2011: Arancito (upright connected script). | |
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Italian designer (b. Rome, 1973) who studied Industrial Design and Visual Communication at Rome University. He works sometimes in Paris. For the magazine 2A+P, he created the monospaced font 2A+P (2000) which evokes robots and synthesized voices. Mènil (1999) is a fluid informal sans family. He also made Jollymusic. Solid Script and Streetfont were made in 2004 for the French mag Worldsigns. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of an experimental faces Jellymorph (2012) and No IS (2011), which use the Perlin random number generator and trigonometric functions to create glyph outlines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate in Graphics from the ISIA in Urbino with a thesis titled Graphica Programmata. From 1999 to 2002 he collaborated as designer with Nofrontiere Design in Vienna. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He spoke at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki on Ortho-Type, a type project about 3d typefaces. His collaborators on that project were Mikkel Crone Koser and Paolo Palma. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Padova, Italy, who created a bilined display typeface called La Ligne (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer in Rome, who created the angry angular face Realizzazione (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer. Codesigner with Mariarosaria Digregorio in 2007 of the techno face FF3300 Type and in 2004 at the Politecnico di Bari of Perbacco, an organic sans designed under the supervision of Giovanni Lussu, Luciano Perondi and Nino Perrone. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erasmo Ciufo
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Sicilian studio in Catania. Behance link. The purely expermental face Catania (2011) is meant to be readable no matter in which direction the paper is held. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Eurotypo
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Eurotypo is also the foundry of Olcar Alcaide. Catalog of Olcar Alcaide's typefaces. In 2010, he published the text family Antium and the warm signage faces Mijas Ultra and Lila Pro Heavy. Typefaces from 2011 include Lila pro, Atenea (a humanist sans family), Agerola Script (a fat flowing signage face), Teja (signage face), Zalea (yet another signage face), and Nabu Pro (a connected signage script). Equalis (2011M, with Juan Lavalle) is a monoline slab face with a huge x-height and wide open counters. It was followed by Equalis Stencil (2011). Ravel (2011) is a fat signage script face. Atenea Egyptian (2011) is a solid slab serif family. Berta (2011) is a signage brush face with connected and unconnected versions. Optic Art (2011) is an ornamental face with building blocks that can be used for overlays. Creator of Eurotypo Bodoni Bold (2011). Typefaces from 2012: Cubus (dingbats), Saxo Deco (art deco), Moliere (2012, an elegant didone family with outspoken ball terminals), Melon Script (a fat curvy signage script family), Riky (comic book family), Chipa (a signage and package design script), Heket (an expressive curly script), Lenga (a slab serif typeface family), Mikal (brush script). Duktus is a 1940s style script in the style iof Donatello (1935, Wagner & Schmidt), Troubadour (1927, Wagner & Schmidt), Liberty Script (1927, Willard T. Sniffin), Trafton Script (1933, Howard Allen Trafton), and Coronet (1937, R.H. Middleton). Typefaces from 2013: Brittes (copperplate script), Talis (contrast-rich sans family), Fiesole (display family with an awkward back-curled lower case d), C Duflos (after a bâtarde coulée by Claude Duflos, a French engraver who was acitve around 1690). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Printer in Venice of books such as De Praepartione Evangelico (1470). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Commercial site (Evolution Publishing and Manufacturing, Huntingdon Valley, PA) offering four old Italian Scripts: Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Volscian. 15 USD per font. Mac only. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabian Pfeifhofer
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Fabio Corubolo
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Graphic designer in Portogruaro, Italy. Creator of the geometric sans face called BAC (2012), and of the heavy octagonal typeface C-Alphabet (2013, collaboration with Roberto Duse), which was named after Wim Crouwel. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman who made the techno face Nando (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
At the Politecnico di Milano, Fabio Matteo Dozio (Lecco, Italy) designed an almost-copperplate typeface called Indie Dozoo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabio Milito
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Fabio Milito Design
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Art director at M&C Satchi in Milan. Creator of the high-contrast fashion mag typeface Penguin (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabio Viola (Blinkimp) is the Bologna-based Italian designer (b. 1986) of the dot matrix typeface Ballplay (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the futuristic family Nuvolari (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. Pastori is based in Bareggio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabrizio Schiavi
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Fabrizio Schiavi Design (or: FSD)
| Fabrizio Schiavi was born in Ponte dell'Olio in the Piacenza province in 1971. FSD Fabrizio Schiavi Design in Piacenza was opened in 1998. With Alessio Leonardi, he co-founded Fontology. He also co-launched the experimental graphics magazine Climax in 1994. Behance link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Font Squirrel link. Dafont link. Bio at FontFont where he made FF Mode 01, FF 0069, FF GeabOil, FF9600, FF Trade 01, FF Steel Mix, FF Steel Ring, FF Steel Jones. [T-26] designer of D44 (1994), Lithium (1994, dingbats), Moore895 (1994), Moore899 (1994), Sidewalker (1994), Exit (1988). Many of his faces are grungy such as Washed (1994). Some are minimalist, such as Monica Due (1999), Monica (1999), and Eco (2001, developed from a logo in the 70s for Ageco). The latter three fonts are very geometric in nature. Other fonts: Washed (1994), Parakalein, Aurora Nintendo (1995), Aurora CW (1995), Mode01 (1995), GeabOil (1995), 9600/0069 (1995), Fontology (1995), FSDItems (2001), FSDforMantraVibes (2001), Pragmata (2001, monospace, OK for programs), PragmataFlash (2002, a pixel font), Pragmata Pro (2011), Essential Pragmata Pro (2011, still monospaced), Sys (2002), SysFlash (2002, a pixel font), Sys 2.0 (2012, a condensed sans designed for very small print), Sys Falso (2013), Virna (2003, a multiline face for Italian MTV, discussed here). The Pragmata and Sys series were optimized for screen usage. In addition, Sys has many ink traps, so it prints well at small sizes, and is more legible than Verdana. He does some custom typeface design, such as the innovative sans serif family called CPCompany (2000). Other clients include Ferrari and Philip Morris. In 2007, he produced a stencil and signage font, Siruca (see also here), for the Al Hamra Complex, one of highest skyscrapers in the world, located in Kuwait. Siruca Pictograms (2008) is free. In 2013, he published Abitare Sans (30 weights), which was originally commissioned by the group Rizzoli Corriere della Sera. Abitare is an Italian magazine. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the need for more fonts. Showcase of Fabrizio Schiavi's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Author of Regole editoriali, tipografiche & redazionali (Publishing, Typographical & Editorial Rules) (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa - Roma, 2004), with a Preface by Martino Mardersteig and a Postscript by Alessandro Olschki. Professor at the Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa - Roma. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundry in Milan. Their catalog was published in 1950. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Federico Galvani
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Federico Landini and Jonathan Calugo cooperated on Chinotto Regular (2012), a sans face custom designed for the Pistoia Underground Festival. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Cagliari, Italy. In 2013, with Simon Becker, he created a versatile octagonal multiline display family, Vasarely, named after optical artist Victor Vasarely. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian architect, b. 1979, Oristano. Creator of the handprinted faces Taccuino (2011, iFontMaker), Pivas (2011, iFontMaker), and Sardine (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Codesigner of Eye of Goat (2005, Molotro, medieval ornaments) with Luciano Perondi and Valentina Montagna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Verona, 1433, died in Rome in 1479. He was a printer and calligrapher. Monotype's Felix Titling (1934) is based on his lettering from 1463. About these letters, he wrote: I, Felice Feliciano, have revived this in the antique manner after ancient marble tablets such as are to be found in Rome and elsewhere. People credit him with the first ruler-and-compass construction of letterforms. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
FF3300
| Italian type blog run by Alessandro Tartaglia, self-proclaimed philosopher and graphic designer. Mariarosaria Digregorio and Enzo Ruta are the creators in 2007 of the techno face FF3300 Type. FF3300 is also an independent and freely downloadable pdf magazine about graphic design, typography, architecture and design, illustration, photography, street art and writing. Tartaglia's typefaces include minimalist experimental types such as Valdrada (2007), Ipazia (2007) and Zoe (2007), as well as ISIA (custom-made for ISIA in Urbino; slabbed and slabless simple glyphs) and Handwriting (a commissioned grunge face for the Pollofriabile magazine in Rome). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian creator (from Fratta Polesine) of the information design faces Solari Mono Fermo and Solari Mono Remigio (2009), which were designed while he was taking a course at the Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Flanker (or: Studio di Lena)
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The outfit was known as JFDooM Flanker's Fonts, between 2001 and 2004. The fonts then were slightly different. They included BodoniFlnk, BodoniFlnkCor, BodoniFlnkCorGrass, BodoniFlnkGas, CNRLineare, DidotFlnk, DidotFlnkCorsivo, DidotFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, DidotFlnkGrassetto, Emblema-della-Repubblica-Italiana, Frantisek, GaramondFlnkNormale, GaramondFlnkCorsivo, GaramondFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, GaramondFlnkGrassetto, GriffoFlnkCorsivo, GriffoFlnkCorsivoGrassetto, GriffoFlnkGrassetto, GriffoFlnknormale, Lellocorsivobold, Lellocorsivo, Lello, MarlboroFlnk, Magnificat, There's-nothing-money-can't-buy, Poker, ShocktothesystemCorsivo, ShocktothesystemVuoto, Sony, Bjork-Isobel, Imperator, Traiano, Rdclub. Most fonts have Greek and Cyrillic letters as well. Commercial fonts at Flanker via MyFonts: Garaldus (2012, based on a 1956 font by Aldo Novarese), Italian Typewriter (2012, a family of monospaced typewriter typefaces based on Italian typewriters of the thirties and forties). Typefaces from 2013: Selene (monoline sans). Dafont carries Magnificat, a 2011 revival of the ornamental typeface by Friedrich Peter. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Italian designer of Vintage (2007). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundry in Torino, est. 1908 by the merger of Nebiolo (Torino) and Urania (Milano). Soon after that, it comprised / absorbed fourteen foundries, Nebiolo, Urania, Paolo Albé and son, Filippo Fiazza, Carlo Radaelli, Francesco Rizzi, F. Zappa, Wilmant L., Baccigaluppi&C., Ferdinando Negroni, Rayper&C, Fratelli Alessandri, Cucco&Gorigli and Dell'Orto. Scan of a specimen book cover, ca. 1914, and ca. 1909. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundry in Milano. Scan of a specimen book cover, ca. 1914. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundryo. Scan of a specimen book cover, ca. 1930, showing the type family Impero. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundry in Milan, which published a bulletin in the 1930s entitled Tipografia (in which we find contributions of Edoardo Persico and the typographer Guido Modiano). They published the avant-garde font Triennale in 1933, a face that set the tone for the institutionalized graphics imposed by the Italian fascists. Some of the posters of that eraare here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry established in Milan in 1886 by merging 37 private Italian foundries (originally under the name Fonderia Tipografica Panfilo Castaldi). It remains in existence today, and its last type director was Umberto Fenocchio. Faces produced include Linea (a grotesque face), Sigla (a transitional face), Brio, and Armonia. Not involved in digital typography. Today, they mainly sell typesetting machines. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Production in 2012: Making Lettering Tall, Universal College (grungy athletic letters), Marmellata Jam (connected script), Marmellata Jar 01 and 02 (connected fat signage scripts), Henry Rodeo Circus (Western face), Scrappy-Looking, Contribute Free Version (connected fountain pen script), Basically Serif, I'm Fashionista, Sign Handwriting, Chalk Hand Lettering, Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded, Voluptate (retro connected script), Retroactive (a great connected script face). Around June 2012, something happened---possibly a complaint from the FontLab software people---, and the name changed from Fonts Lab to Fontscafe. In the same year, a commercial foundry was started via MyFonts. Typefaces from 2013: Egregio Script (retro script), Hand Shop Typography A20 (an 8-style poster font set that includes shadow and inline faces), Hand Shop Typography C30, and many more in the Hand Shop Typography pack, including the frame font Hand Shop Elements. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Abstractfonts link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of P22 Futurismo (1996). Or Fortunado de Pero? [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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, h 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). 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). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer in Naples of Fran's Handwriting (2011). Aka Pupazzoso. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Italy, she was at Spiekermann Partners in Berlin for two years, working closely with Erik Spiekermann for clients such as Birkhauser, Bosch, Messe Frankfurt, and FontShop. After Den Haag, she moved to London where she works as a graphic and type designer. She created the heavily serifed Kina family as a student at KABK. That was followed by the quite original alphabet Python, the feminine transitional family Duchesse. The last face is a revival of this typeface from a French book dating from 1908. About this mysterious face, Hrant Papazian writes: That font looked familiar to me, and I immediately looked at my copies of Audin's books, since that's such a singular repository for funky old French stuff. The roman is shown in figure 125 of volume 3 as "Type Beaudoire" #2 (the #1 is actually even more fascinating). The italic is a few pages down in figure 141, shown as the font "XXe Siècle" by Mayeur. I remember from the time I translated Ponot's article about Perrin that there's a connection between Perrin, Beaudoire and Mayeur (and Marquet). IIRC one of them swiped a design from one other, with the help of another, or something. In 2011, she and Miles Newlyn created Frank, a 5-style humanist sans family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bologna-based designer, who created Bononia (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bari, Italy-based graphic designer. In a type design class of Gio Fuga, she created the copperplate typeface Singer (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graduate of the Politecnico di Milano. Her signage style typeface Fiorucci (2011) is based on the logo of the Italian company Fiorucci. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1987) of the futuristic faces Ultras (2010) and Rounded (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Francesco Faviano (Tsuji Design, Milan) created some typefaces such as the slabby Fuvert (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Francesco Filigoi (Udine, Italy) designed the soft stencil face Olivia (2009) while taking a type design course at Consorzio Poli.Design in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Conegliano, Italy. He created the free modular typeface Rounded (2012) and Baba (2012, glyphs inspired by mosques). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented Italian information designer. Examples: Bicchiere ragionato (2011), Infografica (2011), Information Design. Author of Designer Quotidiano, re-designer.org. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of Coated Sans (2007) and Zwart (2007-2008). His web site is called Uncoated. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer. Creator of Slender (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born and died in Bologna, ca. 1450-1518. Also called Francesco da Bologna. He was a Venetian punchcutter, who worked for Aldus Manutius cutting early italics, music types and romans. Under the surname Griffo, he designed and cut all types for the Aldine Press. The "Aldine" face was recreated by Monotype in 1929. In 1990, the Monotype staff digitized 24 weights of Francesco Griffo's Bembo family. The Bitstream version is called Aldine 401. Bembo is a face that is not compact, with its wide letters and ample spacings, so its use must be carefully weighed. Interesting detail about the end of his life: after the death of Manutius in 1515, Griffo returned to Bologna where he printed some of his own editions until his own death in 1518 or 1519, when it is thought he was hanged for killing his brother-in-law. Kevin Steele explains in 1996: Some sources cite the publication of Cardinal Bembo's De Aetna as 1493 or 1495. And in fact, the design continued to evolve until the 1499 publishing of the spectacular Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Let's not split hairs. Let's celebrate 500 years of Bembo! In the mid fifteenth century printing quickly spread to Italy from Germany, and by the 1470's Venice had became the center of the printing industry, home to over 100 printing companies. Pioneers such as Erhard Ratdolt and Nicolas Jenson had already begun working on adapting the roman alphabet for metal type by the time Aldus Manutius established his press in 1494, with the intention of publishing all the Greek classics. Aldus Manutius (1450 -1515) was a printer, entrepreneur, a great ego, and publisher of over 1200 titles. Among the many contributions of Aldus was the popularization of small, portable books. His expensive beautiful books were far from today's paperbacks, mind you. One of the many great talents working for Aldus was Francesco Griffo, a gifted type designer. Griffo created many innovative type designs that are still admired for their beauty and readability. Their collaboration broke up over a copyright dispute, primarily over the ownership of the cursive type face that Griffo developed under the direction of Aldus. Although Aldus even had a papal decree to protect this style of alphabet, it was as difficult then as it is now to protect a typeface design. The alphabet was widely copied, and the style is known as italic, after its country of origin. Fontdeck link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Nicholas Fabian on Griffo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic and web designer in Vicenza. His Bruciamo Le Gondole (2011) is an ultra-black display face modeled after Mostra. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer, b. Stefanaconi, Calabria, who studied at La Sapienza in Rome, where he currently works. He created the squarish display logo typeface Mamut (2012) and Modular (2012). In 2013, he created the circle-based typeface AlphabetMod Tondiccio. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Francesco Messina
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Francesco Mistico Canovaro
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Naples-based foundry. Their work can be found in Saggio di caratteri della fonderia di proprietà di Francesco Paolo Siniscalco e c. (Napoli, Dalla stamperia di Salvatore de Marco, 1846). That book shows a modern family, some Fraktur families such as Gotico Tedesco and Gotico Inglese, a Rondo, an Inglese connected writing face, the frilly caps face Toscano, flared caps faces called "Chinese", and a few minor families grouped under generic names such as Ornato, Egiziano, Ombrato, Americano, Bislunche and Grasso. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Naples-based foundry. Their work can be found in Saggio di caratteri della fonderia di proprietà di Francesco Paolo Siniscalco e c. (Napoli, Dalla stamperia di Salvatore de Marco, 1846). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian calligrapher and scribe whose Cancellaresca moderna from 1610 in Sienna influenced 1610 Cancellaresca (2008, Gilles Le Corre). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Orte, Italy. Creator of the sans face Flexicool (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Francesco Simoncini
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Italian lettering artist famous for his geometrical constructions. See here. Author of the treatise L'Alfabeto (1517). Pictures of the geometric construction of the capitals are here. Fonts named after him include GFT Torniello by Gio Fuga. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Nebiolo (b. 1908, Pavia, d. 1999). He was part of a team (with Giancarlo Illiprandi, Bruno Munari, Ilio Negri, Till Neuburg, Luigi Oriani and Pino Tovaglia) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. Sergio Polano writes: "Alone master, the Italian visual designer, painter and photographer Franco Grignani, born in Pieve Porto Morone (Pavia) in 1908, trained as architect at the Polytechnic School of Turin (1929-1933); after being part as painter of the late, second futurism, his artistic research came across the European abstract avantgarde movements, and developed a strong interested in the perception psichology of form, that results from the Fifties in his dinamic kind of OpArt, years before it: the mastering of perception rules is expressed by his visual experiments on virtual movement, optical illusion, subperceptions, distortions, moirés, dilatations, flous and so on, applied, with no breaks, from painting to graphic design, through pictures, images, patterns, signs and words. From the Thirties he works in the field of graphic design, collaborating ia with Borletti, Breda Nardi, Cremona Nuova, Dompé, Domus, Mondadori, Montecatini, Spi, Triennale; his artistic direction for Alfieri&Lacroix printing firm is particularly interesting, as it shows an exceptional integration of words (wrtitten by himself) and images. Very well known, his trademark for Lambswool is a paradigmatic example of his approach to sign design. For 26 years he has been art director of Pubblicità in Italia, a magazine devoted to Italian advertising and visual design. He wrote many essays on design and arts, and lectured in Europe and Usa." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the experimental typeface Autovelox (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Venezuelan-born graphic designer in Rome. Designed Franklin Romano. See also here (Mac only). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Franko Luin
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Parma-based foundry. Their work can be found in Nuovo saggio de'caratteri e fregi della fonderia dei Fratelli Amoretti, incisori e fonditori in Parma (Parma, 1830). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer at FontStruct in 2008 of cialix. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fregio Mecano is a modular font of Italian origin created in the 1920s composed of 20 different elements. The designer is unknown. Section Bold Condensed (Creative Alliance) is a digital version of the font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fresko Design
| Firenze, Italy-based design group, which made the free grotesque monospace face Fresko (2010), and the bold techno face Peppermint (2010). In 2011, they made Diamante, Opificio, Tape Rail, and Square Block (octagonal). Behance link. Fresko Design is Andrea Cerboneschi, Giada Bargellini and Katiuscia Mari. In this group, Katiuscia Mari (a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze) seems to be the type design specialist. Filetto (2009) is a sans modeled after DIN 1451 done with Debora Manetti and Francisco Canovaro. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Florence, Italy-based creator of a multilayered geometric typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, he made Cutoff Pro (URW++, +Bold), a serif family with serifs cut off in odd ways, and which covers all European scripts, including Cyrillic and Greek. One could say that it is a hyper-organic typeface. Behance link. Logo. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the free octagonal display font WikiMhu (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the Morse code font Morse (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian foundry in Milano. Scan of a specimen book cover, 1897. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brazilian graphic desgner and illustrator who works in Torino, Italy. Fontstructor who made these pixel faces in 2011: the Chip SS series (based on 8/16 bit video-games), Chip SBI, Cosmonaut, Pixel Reto (+Shadow) [a pixel font based on 'pixo reto', one of Brazil's most representative form of graffiti], Cleardom (+Bold) [an adaptation of Clarendon], Bit Script, 4 Square, Mononucleose, PXLTD. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the free hand-printed font A Day in Autumn (2012) and of Trattopenlife (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface, called New International. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1972, Brescia) of The B.O.M.B. (2004, dingbats), Distopia Black Outlines (2011, a dymo label face), and Steiner (2006, monoline geometric sans). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gabriele Malaspina, also known as Zeno, was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1986. He is an environmental engineering student. Designer of Fat Block (2009, FontStruct). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rovato, Brescia, Italy, b. 1976. He cofounded Studio Charlie with Carla Scorda and Vittorio Turla, with whom he codesigned the futuristic Stereotype family (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence, Italy-based graphic designer who created an ornamental caps typeface in 2013 at Accademia Italiana. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator (b. 1982, Italy) of the pixelish typefaces Sung (2012) and Fox Line (2012). Liner (2012) is a bilined typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian copper engraver and publisher (1550-1620), who in 1596 published a human form alphabet largely influenced by similar alphabets of Peter Flötner in Germany. A font based on this was made by Ulrich Stiehl: GiacomoFranco (download link). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian author of a suite of ornamental letters known as Grotesque Alphabet in Mythological Landscapes (16th century). Scans of some letters in this alphabet: A, B, C, D, F, H, I, M, N, O, Q, R, S, T, V, Z. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator (from Jesolo) of the ink trap techno face Lumina (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. It was intended for applications such as illuminated dashboards of cars and planes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The early modern attempts at recreating his type are due to ATF (ATF Bodoni by Morris Fuller Benton, 1907-1915), Mergenthales Linotype Bodoni (1914-1916), Haas Bodoni (1924-1939), Bauer Bodoni (by Louis Hoell, 1924), and Berthold Bodoni (1930). Today, Linotype lists 114 weights/versions/faces of Bodoni. Some find Bodoni too severe, but I like its proud upright strong and mathematically exact look. Links: Graphion's site. The story of Bodoni Open. Bio by Nicholas Fabian. Another URL for that piece by Fabian. Another bio. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Wiki. Another wiki. Giambattista Bodoni, génie ou assassin? (2007, Jonathan Perez's thesis at Estienne). Linotype link. Klingspor link Pink poster below created by Michael Robinson (Raleigh, NC). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator (b. 1992) of the sharp-edged techno typeface Im Not Lazy (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Mysterious type designer. I foud only one instance in which his name popped up, namely in the Copyright Notice of the CarlingOpti-Light font (1991-1992, castcraft Software Inc), where we learn that Bubola has "redesigned" this font for Castcraft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vicenza, Italy-based creator of the minimalist sans display face Arcado Sans (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian artist. Designer of Linotype Graphena (1997), a very aesthetic architectural font. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Nebiolo. He was part of a team (with Franco Grignani, Bruno Munari, Ilio Negri, Till Neuburg, Luigi Oriani and Pino Tovaglia) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giangiorgio Fuga
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Creator of the free graffiti face Y-Yo Tags (2012). Giangiuseppe (b. 1993) lives in Galtelli on the island of Sardinia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator in Milan of the free techno face Black Caps (2011). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian-Venezuelan designer who grew up in both countries, graduated from The American School of Milan (ASM) in Milan (2009), and currently enrolled in the BFA program at Otis College of Art and Design. With James Kenneally, she designed the free fun informal typeface Reacoo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gianni Marcolongo
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Gianni Sinni
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Typographer and food historian who lives in London. She is the author of the National Gallery cookbook, and is currently working on the Oxford Companion to Italian Food. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, she spoke about the connection between the works of Renaissance Humanist scholars and the food they enjoyed eating. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan who created the techno face Finnair (2012) based on the lettering in the Finnair logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giò Fuga Type
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Roman creator of BBB (2012), a typeface created with compass and ruler. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Sicilian designer of the pixel face Graphic Pixel (2007). Lives in Palermo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic design student at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK. He created the modular geometric face Wirdem (2011) during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Florence, Italy-based graphic and print designer who made the experimental LineType (2009), the fat grotesk face Vince Nkarawi (2011), and the ultra-fat Ovalian (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1938 in Udine, Italy, Giorgio Giaiotto studied architectural design with Carlo Magnani, and then worked in newspaper typography and finally moved to cartoon design. Creator of typefaces at VGC, such as Giorgio (1966, wood type style). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giovambattista Palatino
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Palatino is also the name of a famous typeface designed in 1948 by Hermann Zapf at Linotype. Akira Kobayashi, the Palatino typeface family was expanded. Linotype released the Palatino Nova in 2005 and Palatino Sans and Palatino Sans Informal in 2006 as a joint effort of Hermann Zapf and Akira Kobayashi. Copies or near-copies of Zapf's paltino include Book Antiqua (by Monotype, distributed by Microsoft---this face did not have Zapf's blessing and may well have led Zapf to resign from ATypI), URW Palladio L (on which Zapf collaborated), TeX Gyre Pagella (free), Zapf Calligraphic 801 (by Bitstream, approved by Zapf), Zapf Renaissance Antiqua (by Scangraphic), Paltus (URW), Palladium (Compougraphic), Palm Strings (Corel), Parlament (Scangraphic), Patina (Alphatype), pal (GoScript), Palladio (by SoftMaker), palazzo (by SoftMaker), and FPL Neu (based on URW Palladio L). View various digital implementions of Zapf's Palatino. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Professor of Visual Design at the Faculty of Design and Arts of University IUAV of Venice. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he was supposed to speak about monograms and images, but did not show up. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Link to his human figure alphabet. Digitization of his Bizzarie di varie figure include Bracelli Geometric Human Forms (Dick Pape, 2010). Dick Pape writes: Giovanni Battista Braccelli's Bizzarie di varie figure contains a suite of 50 etchings that celebrate the human figure in geometric forms. (1624) Squares, triangles, circles, and parallelograms take the place of muscle, bone, and tissue, defining the body in a new visual vocabulary. Braccelli's designs are unique in the history of book illustration. They represent a high point in the Mannerist style of etching that flourished in the 17th century. Mannerism incorporated the techniques of the Renaissance but rejected the classical imagery and harmonious style that is the hallmark of much 15th- and 16th-century European art. Braccelli's work had considerable influence on later generations of artists. His figures were adopted, for example, during the 20th century by the Surrealists, who lavished praise on his geometric forms and his ability to invest mechanical images with graceful, human qualities. Some of the etchings portray human emotion, as when figures dance across the page or struggle with one another in mortal combat. [Google]
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Bologna-based foundry. His work can be found in Saggi dei caratteri, fregi, e sgraffe della nuova fonderia di Giambattista Sassi tipografo (Bologna. Con approvazione. 1797). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Rialto won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. Soon to release a sans serif family called Linea. From 1995-2001, he taught calligraphy and typography at the College for Communication and Media Design in Pöchlarn, Vienna and St. Pölten, Austria. He cuts letters in stone. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about Rialto. Working on df Stilo (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giovanni de Faccio
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Or Gianfrancesco Cresci. Milanese calligrapher who worked in Rome during the later 16th century, and became the Vatican's scriptor. Author of Essemplare (1560) and Il Perfetto Scrittore (1570), and influential Italian writing master. BibliOdyssey describes a type scandal from that era: Gianfrancesco Cresci heralded the onset of the Baroque by categorically rejecting what he considered were the useless adornments to some of the alphabets produced in the 1540s by the master calligrapher, Giambattista Palatino. Palatino responded by adopting letterforms similar to Cresci's (whose first work was published in 1560 in Essemplare) only to be accused by Cresci of lacking the necessary skills to produce the set himself, instead hiring an engraver for the work. It was quite the calligraphy/typography scandal of the 16th century. I believe the modern scholarly consensus, from manuscript comparisons, vindicates Palatino. Some images of his alphabets: Italian Gothic Capitals (1570), Italian Initials (1570), Italian Minuscule (1570). Another minuscule from 1570. Digital fonts directly based on his work include the Trajan all-caps face Cresci LP (1997, Garrett Boge). Pictures of his roman capitals. Images from Il Perfetto Scrittore. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Pistoia, Italy-based designer (aka Il Papyrus) of the Celtic knot font Celtic101 (2002) and the Greek font families Atene (1995) and Naxos (1995). GBL edizioni is his company. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Rome in 1944, Lussu is a graphic designer who teaches Graphic Design in the Course in Industrial Design of the Politecnico di Milano since its opening in 1993. He also teaches at LaSapienza in Rome. Cofounder of the magazine Calligrafia. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the shape of language (is typography the ultimate means of communication?). Author of G. Lussu, A. Perri, and D. Turchi: "Scritture. Le forme della communicazione" (AIAP Edizioni, 1997). Author of G. Lussu: "La lettera uccide" (Stampa Alternativa&Graffiti, 1999; also Nuovi Equilibri, Viterbo 1999). He is one of the founders of the magazine "Calligrafia". Editor of the series "Scritture" published by Stampa Alternativa, where volumes by Adrian Frutiger, R. O. Blechman, Roy Harris and James Mosley appeared. He created a Roman lettering font, Scipio, in 1998 for 8mm-high letters to be carved out on the path from the Pantheon to the Trevi Fountain in Rome. This roman type was based on the lettering found on the Sepolcro degli Scipioni (2nd century before Christ). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Firenze-based printer. For his typefaces, see Saggio de' caratteri e fregi della tipografia di G. Marenigh (Firenze, 1813). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian typographer. Imre Reiner shows and compares the earliest fleurons, including one by Aldus Manutius (1500), Giovanni Padovana (1528), Dolet (1540) and Egenolff (1590). Close-up. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who created the sans face Centralissimo (2008) during his studies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Medieval miniaturist and painter, who died in 1398, probably in Milan. He was one of the first ones to show (painted) letters of an alphabet containing drawings of birds, animals and ladies (around 1390). See here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Girgio Coraglia
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Graphic designer in Lecco, Itay, who made a type-based portrait of Bodoni in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giulia De Grazi (Verona, Italy) used only circular arcs and straight lines in the construction of her circular font called Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome. Creator of the ornamental typeface Louis XIV (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Milan, Giulio Bertolotti created the display sans typeface Hill House (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based graphic designer who made the display face Amie Sans (2011), about which he says: Amie Sans is an obscene font. It's all about friendship, love, sex and casual relationships between glyphs. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An ex-student of the IUAV (the University Institute of Architecture of Venice), where he wrote a thesis on the theory and history of type classification. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about Italian typeface atlases and classifications. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A painter, he was the first director of Nebiolo in Turin, and was succeeded in 1936 by Alessandro Butti. All his fonts were published at Nebiolo:
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Turin-based painter who headed the type design department of Nebiolo from 1930-1936. He designed Neon (1935) for Nebiolo. For a digitization, see Gala (2004, Canada Type, by Rebecca Aleccari), where we find this text: "Gala is the digitization of the one of the most important Italian typefaces of the twentieth century: G. da Milano's 1935 Neon design for the Nebiolo foundry. This design's importance is in being the predecessor - and perhaps direct ancestor - of Aldo Novarese's Microgramma (and later Eurostile), which paved the world's way to the gentle transitional, futuristic look we now know and see everywhere. It is also one of the very first designs made under the direction of Alessandro Butti, a very important figure in Italian design. It is quite strange, not to mention unfair, that this typeface, though way ahead of its time, is rarely mentioned in type history, but one could reason that it must have been treated with disdain like much of the immediate pre-war Italian artwork, and was later filed under the more visible gems Nebiolo produced through the prolificacy of Butti and Novarese. It is too bad that historically important designs such as this one went uncredited in the later boom of geometric and techno designs of the second half of the twentieth century." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Verona, Italy, this graphic designer and art director created the typeface Swan (2009) and the avant garde face Architecta (2009, Happycentro). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the handwriting font Amyie (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, b. 1989, Italy. For a school project at Escuela de Arte in Madrid, he created a font called Dynamich. This is pure experimentation, based on Malevich's paintings. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the scratchy sketched face Alabama (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Prolific Italian designer of the futuristic monoline face GE Mezzano (2008) and the futuristic sans GE Futuribile (2008). He also made the wonderful ink splash connected handwriting face ITC Santangeli (2009). Other faces: GE Cadeau, GE Elena, ITC Mattia, GE Martora, ITC Ludwig (2001-2002, distressed), GE WM, GE Quest (grunge). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Giuseppe Fierro (Benevento, Italy) created the retro grotesk typeface Macondo (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giuseppe Levi from Perugia designed AnecdoteCaps in 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic artist, 1634-1718. In Le Collezioni DArte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, Le Incisioni - Volume 1, he showed many figurative alphabets, such as the bizarre Alfabeto in Sogno (Dream Alphabet), dating from 1683. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Giuseppe Salerno
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Gorgeous web page in which Gottlieb Stalder offers his calligraphic script "Gottlieb Stalder Schrift " in font format (truetype and type 1, Mac and PC): capitals and numbers only. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grafici senza frontiere (graphic designers without borders) is based in Milan. They created a piano key Bauhaus-inspired typeface called Archiquadro (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gregory Flajszer
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Born in 1987, and living in Reggio Emilia, Greta Silvi created the surrealistic face Fusion (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and co-founder in 1989 of the design firm Industrial&Corporate Profiles Srl. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the corporate types he designed: Wally and Cordenons. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Happycentro
| Happycentro is a creative studio based in Verona, Italy. Members include Federico Galvani, Giuliano Garonzi, Roberto Solieri, Giulio Grigollo, Andrea Manzati, and Federico Padovani. Behance link. They made various experimental types. Federico Galvani and Sebastiano Boni drew the caps face ProtoType by hand. Giulio Grigollo made the avant garde face Architecta (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Happyloverstown
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A follower of Calugi writes: Jonathan is a young illustrator hailing from Pistoia, Italy. It's nearly impossible to not recognize his signature style: what at first appears to be a child-like doodling, a closer look will reveal a world of intricate, carefully crafted patterns and eccentric geometric forms. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Hellotype
| Italian graphic designer and art director Erasmo Ciufo (b. 1982, milan) runs Fontinspiration and Hellotype. His typefaces include Tura (2008), Rapida (2008), Inspiration (2006, free), Regolo, Safran (2007) and Minutron. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Robecchetto-based Italian graphic designer (b. 1986), who created Zodiac (2007), Old Skull Hellron (2007, skulls), Thorn (2007), Hellphabet (2007, handprinted), and Dazed and Confused (2007, grunge face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. Bologna, 1976) of some deconstructivist fonts such as Kill Your Neighborhood (2000, knife dingbats and scanbats of faces), and the broken stencil font Metal Meltdown (2001). In 2000, he co-founded the magazine Pressure, dedicated to graffiti art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
History of printing in Venice. Exemplary web pages. Pieces on Jean and Wendelin de Spira, Nicolas Jenson, Erhard Ratdolt, and Aldus Manutius. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Faenza, Italy, who created some nice typographic posters in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian copper engraver who lived in the 16th century. Around 1570, he created intricate initial caps, with each letter telling a story (the R in the link shows Romulus and Remus in Rome). His inspiration comes from mythology, and often involves angels, mermaids, snakes, and fruits. Spamula shows three letters of his alphabet, each letter encapsulating a mythological episode from the Methamorphoses of Ovid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie, Roma, who lives in Rome. Behance link. In 2012, AIEMM created the informal sans face Dear Santa Claus. Free for those who ask. Carbonmade link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Iara Principe (aka illustrissima) is a French-Brazilian-Italian freelance illustrator and graphic designer who resides in Paris. She drew a fat roundish face, ABC (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Igino Marini
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Igino Marini (b. 1964), an Italian civil engineer, made revivals of the Fell types from 2000-2004: IM_FELL_Double_Pica_Italic, IM_FELL_Double_Pica_Roman, IM_FELL_Double_Pica_Roman_SC, IM_FELL_English_Italic, IM_FELL_English_Roman, IM_FELL_English_Roman_SC, IM_FELL_French_Canon_Italic, IM_FELL_French_Canon_Roman, IM_FELL_French_Canon_Roman_SC, IM_FELL_FLOWERS_1, IM_FELL_FLOWERS_2, IM_FELL_Great_Primer_Italic, IM_FELL_Great_Primer_Roman, IM_FELL_Great_Primer_Roman_SC, IM_FELL_DW_Pica_Italic, IM_FELL_DW_Pica_Roman, IM_FELL_DW_Pica_Roman_SC, IM_FELL_THREE_LINE_PICA. This is an unbelievable historically important collection:
Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Igino Marini's kerning program, which is better than InDesign's Kernus according to the examples on Igino's page. He will even kern your fonts for you! The program was tested on a collection of revivals of Fell types developed by Igino, an Italian engineer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
iKern
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Designer at Nebiolo. He was part of a team (with Giancarlo Illiprandi, Bruno Munari, Franco Grignani, Till Neuburg, Luigi Oriani and Pino Tovaglia) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
"IMPRINT (The Newsletter of Digital Typography) is a free newsletter devoted to digital typography and typesetting." Edited by Robert A. Kiesling. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Irene Torresi (Arezzo, Italy) created Fluid Font in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ISIA Urbino
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In 2009, this was followed by another open source type family, Titillium, a clean organic sans that became quite popular. This huge typeface family made it to Google Web Fonts in 2012. The team says: The aim of the project is the creation of a collective fonts released under OFL. Each academic year, a dozen students work on the project, developing it further and solving problems. Any type designer interested in the amendment or revision of Titillium is invited to co-operate with us, or develop their own variants of the typeface according to the terms specified in the Open Font license. Besides Luciano Perondi, people involved in the direction of the project include Marcello Signorile, and Manuel Zanettin. Diego Gusti developed the first prototype of Titillium. ISIA Urbino used to hold type design workshops. Examples: a monogram done in 1997-1998 by Michela Beccacece, another monogram from 1997-1998, the techno outline face Oracle (2002-2003) by Daniele Frattolin, Annamaria Mileo, Laura Testasecca, and Violetta Troina, Broderbund (2002-2003) by Laura Agostinelli, Francesca Ballarini, Elvira Pagliuca, and Alice Silvestri, the slab face Vivitar (2003-2004) by Alessandra Bicchi, Claudio Collina, Cinzia Quaglia, Margherita Vecchi, Dario Volpe, and Diego Zappelli, the futuristic face Syntellect (2002-2003) by Alessia Travaglini, Denis Imolesi Faraoni, Luca Piraccini, and Marco Comastri, the techno face Aspes (2003-2004) by Bisiac, Caroni and Comelli, the StarTrek face Fieldcrest (2002-2003) by Alessandra Schweiggl, Cornelia Hasler, Luca, and Giovanni Munari, the heavy display caps face Sharp (2003-2004) by Caterina Fattori, Marta Lettieri, Antonella Lorenzi, Alice Piazzi, and Roberta Paolucci, the typeface Canon (2002-2003) by Sonia Cattaneo, Sivia Pignat, Giulia Rizzini, and Claudia Stefanelli that was based on the logotype for Canon, the futuristic face Air New Zealand (2002-1003) by Chiara Cardascia, Giovanni Munari, Elisa Pellacani, and Susanna Tosatti. Fontsy link. Font Squirrel link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
This is now called Università Iuav di Venezia. It has three faculties, Architecture (since 1927), Design and Arts, and Urban Planning. A good place to study typography in Venice. The professorial staff includes Sergio Polano and Giovanni Anceschi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundries from the 1860s through 1890 include Zatta (Venice), Alessandri (Florence), Ameretti (Parma), Paganino (Parma), Negroni (Bologna) and Wilmant (Milan). In their thesis "Questioni di carattere", Manuela Rattin and Matteo Ricci write that these foundries were frought with alignment problems in the production, and had few original typefaces. It was a mediocre era in Italian typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nice set of articles by Gio Fuga on some Italian penmanship books from the late 19th and 20th centuries---see also here and here. He discusses
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italic 1.0
| "Italic 1.0 Il disegno di caratteri contemporaneo in Italia Contemporary Type Design in Italy" is an English-Italian book edited by Paola Lenarduzzi, Mario Piazza and Silvia Sfligiotti and published by AIAP in 2002. It summarizes the state of typography in Italy in 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italic 2.0 is an Italian blog and type project, very central to all that is happening on the type scene in Italy. There is also a book by the same title, dated 2008, edited by Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, and Silvia Sfligiotti, with articles by Giovanni Lussu, James Clough, Antonio Cavedoni, Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, Giangiorgio Fuga, and Silvia Sfligiotti. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type tour, showing pictures of found type, with maps and commentary. Part of Social Design Zine. For example, one is called Bodoniana. The other subpages are grouped around themes as well. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Itomi
| Antonio Moro is a professional designer in Italy, who has been at it since 1999. His typefaces include Aldo Sans (2004) and Vinca Stencil (2004). Another URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ivan Favalezza (Verona, Italy) designed the experimental geometric typeface Snowflakes Display (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivana Concilio (Salerno, Italy) created the experimental CMD font (2012). What, how, why? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calligrapher, typographer and architect. She is onere of three partners at RTT (Ronchi Tubaro Thom), an outfit in Milan, Italy, involved in typography, graphic design and calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer-entrepreneur who learned the craft of typesetter at the Istituto Pavoniano Artigianelli and founded Imagine, a book publishing company. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about his experieces at the laboratory of type design at the Faculty of Industrial Design of Politecnico di Milano. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Izmir University of Economics
| Type design projects (June 2007) by Alessandro Segalini's students at Izmir University of Economics:
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During his communication design studies in Milan, Jacopo Atzori created a decorated caps typeface (2013) for 6:00am Skateboard Culture Magazine. Check also his oriental Nike Tour lettering for the same magazine in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jacques de Sanlecque the elder
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James Mosley
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Author of the essay entitled Copyright&Fonts In The Age of Cyber Space. Jane Patterson designed or co-designed FB Californian (1987-1994, with Carol Twombly and David Berlow), FB Cheltenham (1992), Eldorado, Skyline [1992: Skyline was commissioned from Font Bureau by Condé Nast as headletter for Traveler magazine. Based on Imre Reiner's Corvinus (1929-1934)], and John Downer's Simona. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jane Patterson
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Italian graphic designer. She created the lively display face Lenoxx (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Taranto, Italy-based graphic designer (aka Jean Grphx) who made the free brush face Ciao (2010) and the grungy Anconventional (2012). Dafont link. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian company which offers a free 500-set font package, of which five were made by Jecko, according to their web site: Jecko Legacy, JD LCD Rounded, JD Familla, JD Stars, JD Rings. FontStructor who designed the dot matrix face JD LCD Rounded (2011). Fontspace has several fonts made in 2011: JD LED 3 (dot matrix face), JD Scarabeo (white on black face for Scrabble tiles, +Light), JD Erica Regular (octagonal), Jecko Legacy, JD Jessica Regular (dot matrix face), JD Garden Regular (octagonal outline face), JD LCD Rounded, JD Eugeni (octagonal, white-on-black), JD Gina Regular, JD Star Regular, JD Rings Regular, and JD Nadia Regular, JD Brush, JD Stefania, JD Jerk, JD Hands, JD LED3 (dot matrix face), JD Familla, JD Treasure (handprinted), JD Rossella (handprinted), JD Fabiola (handprinted), JD Techno (handprinted), JD Teresa (handprinted), JD Lecce (octagonal), JD Eugenia (white on black), JD Code (octagonal), JD Stars. Fonts from 2012: JD Lucrezia, JD Digital Regular. Fonts made in 2013: JD Rosaria, JD LED 7, JD Vega, JD Teresa, JD Stefania, JD Gina (octagonal), JD Arrow Up, JD drip, JD LED 5, JD Wave, JD Fynx, JD Tyr, JD Fantasy (stitched font), JD Neos (octagonal). Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. FontStruct link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jekyll&Hyde
| Jekyll&Hyde is an Italian studio founded in Milan in 1996 by Marco Molteni and Margherita Monguzzi. Mainly involved in corporate logos, this studio also produced some typefaces, notably Contaminato (1997), Pop (2001, geometric letters consisting of very few atomic elements), and Apocalisse (1996, grunge). These are not on their interesting but useless web page. They made the hairline octagonal face Otto (2008, octagonal), Peggy (2005, organic), Swimming (2001, organic). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic design student at the Academy of Fine Arts Brera in Milan, who was born in 1985 in Gemona del Friuli. She created a semi-stencil rounded typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joana Teles Rodrigues Pais is originally from Portugal, but lives in Milan. In 2009, she obtained a masters degree from the Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD in Milan. She made an experimental typeface called Small Urban Disasters (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
First printer of Venice. Died in 1469. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jonathan Calugi
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Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008. Originally from Italy, he created the Vasinto Sans family as a student at KABK. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Joseph Miceli
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Julia
| Julia is Valerio Di Lucente (Italy), Erwan Lhuissier (France) and Hugo Timm (Brazil), who met at the Royal College of Art in London, founding the studio Julia in 2008 upon graduation. Julia works on books, typefaces, exhibition design, posters, websites, identities and tablet applications. Typefaces created by them include
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Simone wiorks as graphic and type designer He also designed the octagonal Antique Angles (2009), the counterless Simple Pop (2010), Xetra (2009), Alfabeto (2010) and the 3d shadow face Shadow45 (2010). In 2012, he created the Italian wood style typeface East Wood, and a beautiful rounded suarish mionospaced typeface called Monocolo. This typeface family comes with an icon and emoticon set. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian design studio in Reggio nell Emilia, est. 1996. Behance link. Creators of the BEE family (2011, fat and counterless). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner of Andrea Cernoneschi in Monocromo, an Italian design studio in Firenze. She created Diamante (2011, a sans face with a condensed feel) and Peppermint (2011, a techo face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Katiuscia Mari
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Kidstudio
| Kidstudio (Firenze, Italy) was founded in 1997 by Luca Parenti and Marco Innocenti (b. Firenze). In 2013, Innocenti codesigned Kidot with Anastasia Yakovleva: Kidot font was created as a corporate font for KIDSTUDIO. It was born from professional passion to design & typography. A child of bauhaus and modernism. Honest & pure. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
German printer (b. Mainz, d. 1477, Rome), who left Mainz with Arnold Pannartz to establish Italy's first printing press, in the monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco. There, they published three books, Cicero's De Oratore, the Opera of Lactantius, and St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. In 1467, they set up a press in the De Massimi palace in Rome, from where they published 50 more books. Sweynheym is also spelled Sweynheim in some publications. Revivals of their faces, blends between humanist and blackletter, include the Subiaco font done by Ashendene Press in 1902. More recently, an almost exact copy of their types was digitized by Shane Brandes as SweynheymPannartz (2010). Nicholas Fabian on Sweynheym. An Italian Antiqua from 1465. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designers of the handwriting faces KoRnNet.too.it (2003) and Sick Font (2004). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
La Operina
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Italian designer of the handwriting face LaSuSiNaCLaSSiC (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
London-based designer (b. 1985, Rome) of the display caps typeface Funplastic (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laura Addari (Venice) created Positive Negative (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the retro face AmeriCar (2010), a face designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan where she studied under Gio Fuga. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LCD Graphics
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Visual designer in Amsterdam. Designer of the elliptical face Yon (2010), a typeface designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan where he studied under Gio Fuga. Leandro is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Other typefaces:
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Leftloft
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Designer in Rome who is working on the heavy angular display face Größe (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Leonardo Di Lena
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Graduate of IED in Rome in 2012. Cofounder in 2012 with Matteo Brogi of Studio Polpo. Together with Matteo Brogi , Leonardo Maltese (Rome) created the vintage signage typeface Forno (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Trieste in 1962, and a partner in CODEsign in Rimini with Vetta (who died in 2003) and Tassinari. From 1990 to 2002 he has been art director at the Dolcini associati office in Pesaro. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the pieces letters are made of. Creator of the militaristic geometric experimental typeface Corva Salto (1993). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer who graduated from the European Institute of Design in Rome. For his final project in 2012, he designed a typeface on the surface of a regular 3d polyhedron. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman designer who created the Curly typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type workshop held on November 17, 2007 in Lugano. Speakers: Andreu Balius, Patrick Thomas, Alessandro Segalini, Tarek Atrissi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Company that (re?)made the soccer lettering font Puma Pace in 2007. This was used by the Italian soccer team during the 2006 World Cup. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian publishing house specializing in type. Edited by Stampa Alternativa / Graffiti and led by Giovanni Lussu. Titles include:
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Libro di M. Giovambattista Palatino cittadino romano
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Born in 1989 in Treviso, Italy. Creator of Lilith Script (2012, hand-printed). Aka Fatum Path. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Linotype&Linotipisti
| Pages by Giorgio Coraglia on Ottmar Mergenthaler and Linotype. As he himself puts it: "It is a site open to the testimonies of all those whom have dedicated a life of labor to a mythical profession: to the Linotype operator&typographers&= journalists throughout the world. To remember&to remind." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian writing master, b. Bologna, d. Roma 1617. Examples of his work date from 1582 and 1588. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic artist, illustrator, and web designer who lives and works in Parma, Italy, and studied at the European Institute of Design in Milan. He says to be inspired by the work of Belgian comic artist Hergé, Georges Remi, creator of the popular comic character, Tintin. Designer of the innovative display font Orchestra (2003, Bitstream), which has letters made up from instruments. Home page. Alternate URL for home page. Yet another URL. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic design blog with a subpage on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He has shown some complete, mostly calligraphic, alphabets that I suspect have never been fonted. These include the calligraphic brush set ABC Narrow (2008), a blackletter demo, and Dry Brush Fraktur (2010). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Milan-based designer who created the Buckeye typeface in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Milan, Luca Ferrario designed the fat finger typeface Supergrass (2013) which is based on the Supergrass Festival logotype. Free download. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the hairline sans typeface Fibo (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer in Udine. Creator of the modular futuristic face Space Paranoid (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian web, graphic and type designer who lives in Brescia. Behance link. His free typefaces: Evereverse (2010), Fatty Joy (2005, an art deco cum organic typeface), Ica3 (2006), Evereverse (2007) and wwwar (2005, pixel face). He also experimented with the iPhone BBD app for making typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
About me link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luciano Perondi
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Luciano Perondi
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Senior Italian designer who is based in London. Basik home page. His typefaces include Bass It Up (squarish), Privacy (modular), and Wellvetica (+Bold). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian woodcutter, typographer and publisher. He teaches lettering and graphic arts history in Milan. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the current state of calligraphy in Italy and the achievements of the ACI (Associazione Calligrafica Italiana) since its inception in 1991. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During her graphic design studies in London, Lucy Denning created a decorative extension of Lucinda Handwriting called Iced Circulus (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer and illustrator in Milan, who created a new style of stencil face in her Beagle Stencil (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studies in Rome, Ludovico Cesetti created the alchemic typeface Rigel (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roderick Cave writes in his The Private Press: The first part of this was printed entirely from wood blocks, but the second part, Il Modo di Temperare le Penne, contains several pages printed in a very fine italic typeface modeled on the cancellaresca formata hand. The type was fairly obviously derived from the hand used by Arrighi himself; it seems likely that the punches were cut by his partner, who can with reasonable certainty be identified as Lautizio de Bartolomeo dei Rotelli, of whose skill as an engraver of seals Benvenuto Cellini speaks with respect in his Autobiography. He started printing in 1524 and designed his own italic typefaces for his work, which were widely emulated. His letterforms were revived in the 20th century by designers such as Plumet (1925), Stanley Morison (Monotype Blado (1923, Stanley Morrison) is based on Arrighi's lettering---it was unfortunately named after the printer Antonio Blado who used the type in the 1530s; the name Monotype Arrighi would have been more appropriate), Frederic Warde (in his Arrighi Italic, 1925), Robert Slimbach (one could say that his memory lives on through fonts like Adobe Jenson Multiple Master), Ladislav Mandel (Cancellaresca), Willibald Kraml (Vicentino, 1992), Paulo W (as Volitiva), Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem (Briem Operina), James Grieshaber (P22 Operina), Michelle Dixon (Arrighi Copybook), Gilles Le Corre (1522 Vicentino, 2011) and Jonathan Hoefler (Requiem Text). Arrighi's last printing was dated shortly before the sack of Rome (1527), during which he was probably killed. Sample pics: Fantastic ornamental capitals (1522), roman capitals (1522), Italian capitals, Italian minuscule. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
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Designer at Nebiolo. He was part of a team (with Giancarlo Illiprandi, Bruno Munari, Ilio Negri, Till Neuburg, Franco Grignani and Pino Tovaglia) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this experimental typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LXfonts
| A collection of free metafont and type 1 fonts made in 2008 by Turn-based Claudio Beccari designer for mathematical slide presentations. These are genealogically related to Knuth's Computer Modern fonts. The fonts: lcmbsy8, lcmex8, lcmmi8, lcmmib8, lcmsy8, leclb8, lecli8, leclo8, leclq8, llasy8, llasyb8, llcmss8, llcmssb8, llcmssi8, llcmsso8, lmsam8, lmsbm8, ltclb8, ltcli8, ltclo8, ltclq8. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian author of The pleasure of showing and looking at words, an essay, ca. 2007, on the roots of calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Authors of a thesis entitled Questioni di Carattere: La tipografia in Italia dal 1861 agli anni Settanta (1997, Stampa Alternativa&Graffiti). It surveys the history of Italian typography and type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Manuele Mascheroni
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Italian designer in Jakarta who made a geometric modular typeface called Gioca (2013) starting from Century Gothic Bold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marcelo Omegna, who seems to be Italian, designed the round signage face Patronato 21 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marcloud
| During his studies in Rome, Marcloud, or Claudius Marcus (b. 1990), designed the unicase typeface The Copenhagener (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Marco Anelli
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Italian calligrapher from the late 16th century, who created several sets of beautiful initials. Geometric construction of roman capitals, from Giardino de Scrittori, 1598. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the refined display face Jent (2011), which is fit for a gentleman's fashion mag. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marco Comastri
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Italian designer of the sans face Laulkìtere (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Torino, Italy-based designer of Pietre (2013), a stencil face inspired by stone slabs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based graphic designer. Creator of Ottotipo (2010, grotesque). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian youngster, b. 1992. Creator of the comic strip scanbat face KakuDingbatsOnePieceArtOnePieceArea (2008), DirtyFemaleFeet (2009, scanbats), Knives (2009, scanbats), Karyna Feet (2009), The Comedian Dingbats (2009, scanbats) and PipBoyWeaponsDingbats (2009). Aka Skulls, or The Fetish Press. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian (b. 1997, Cesena) who designed the the sketched face Sketchetik (2011)---at least that is the information given by Dafont. I believe that they are wrong and that Sketchetik, the face posted by Dafont, belongs to Hiekka Graphics. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented illustrator and graphic designer in Milan, Italy, who works for the Italian version of Wired Magazine. Behance link. Examples: a bike poster called Hand Made With Love (2011), and an illustration called Firenze (2011). Creator of the fun free font GRN Burgy (2011), which was created for massive headlines, posters and fast food logos. It takes inspiration from the earliest American graffiti and from fast food culture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marco Innocenti
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Graphic designer in Milan. In 2013, he created the ransom note style httype typeface, which uses letters from social media logos. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Udine-based designer of a nice typographic logo, Pinna (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marco Molteni
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Freelance designer and illustrator in Milan. Creator of the alchemic typefaces Roccia (2013), Parqa (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts: inspired by Gotham, a font used in German expressionist cinema), Labieno (2012) and Harf 77 (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts: Harf77 is a contribution to the English punk scene of the late 70's). Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian creator of the artsy stencil face Essedicom (2009). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the geometric sans typeface Biko (2013), which is named after South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. Buy Biko from Monofonts. Obtain a free copy from Dafont. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jekyll&Hyde is an Italian studio founded in Milan in 1996 by Marco Molteni and Margherita Monguzzi. Mainly involved in corporate logos, this studio also produced some typefaces, notably Contaminato, Pop (2001, geometric letters consisting of very few atomic elements), and Apocalisse (1996, grunge). These are not on their interesting but useless web page. They made the interesting hairline octagonal face Otto (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Venice in 1984, Margherita Rubini studied industrial design at the IUAV. In 2013, she created the 3d "industrial look" typeface Block. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the hand-printed typeface Effe (2012, +New Version). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication design student at Politecnico di Milano, who is from Mantova. She created Pasticcio Storico (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maria Lyng (Copenhagen, b. 1983) created the flowing sans typeface Favonio (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Firenze-based designer of the sans totling face Modam (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Firenze-based printer, 1803-1877. For his typefaces, see Saggio dei caratteri della Tipografia Galilejana : e per incidenza cenni sull'origine della stampa : storia di detta tipografia e catalogo delle opere stampate fin qui dalla medesima (Firenze, 1853). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer (b. Bari, 1983) who studied at the Politecnico di Bari with people such as Luciano Perondi, Giovanni Lussu, Nino Perrone and Daniele Turchi. Her work includes a nice set of emoticons for moods, and a typeface called Perbacco (2004, codesigners at the Politecnico di Bari of this organic sans: Davide Cantatore and Enzo Ruta; teachers: Giovanni Lussu, Luciano Perondi and Nino Perrone). She lives in Colle, Bari. She got her degree in Disegno Industriale at Politecnico di Bari in 2006, and is doing a Masters in Comunicazini Visive e Multimediali at Università IUAV di Venezia. Codesigner with Enzo Ruta in 2007 of the techno face FF3300 Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mariia Parkhomenko (Turin, Italy) created the mechanical typeface just called Alphabet (2012) for a book game. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Art director and illustrato in Milan, who created the arts and crafts display face Pesto (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer (b. 1954) and architect who published La Grafica su Marte 2000 (Milan,1996), Universo Balan (Milan, 2001) and Progettare il marchio (Turin, 2001). In 1996, he founded the 46xy studio in Milan. He also teaches graphic design at the Politecnico in Milan. Since 1992, he is the president of AIAP, the Italian Visual Communications Design Association. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about contemporary type design in Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of an ultra-fat outline face in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mark Tamagnini
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Graduate of the Type and Media program at KABK, 2009. There, she designed the serif family Alice, specifically for magazines. She is working on Bolano in 2010 about which she writes: It is based on my brush calligraphy, tamed down to a book typeface. She is back in Milan now where she works at LS Design. She wrote A Hundred Years of Type 1813-1908 Typefounders and Printers in Italy from Bodoni's death to the foundation of Augusta company in Turin (Master degree dissertation developed with Emanuela Conidi. Supervisor: Prof. James Clough at Politecnico di Milano, July 2006; in Italian: Cento Anni di Caratteri 1813-1908). Scans of Alice: i, ii, iii, iv, v. Scans of Bolano: i, ii, iii. Cargo Collective link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011-2012, Martina Casonato studied at Universita degli Studi di Venezia, Politecnico di Milano and the London College of Communication. Her Hono typeface (2012) is designed for small print. It was developed in collaboration with Diego Savalli, Paola Dus, Manuel Rigo and Tommaso Vidus Rosin, under the direction of Marta Bernstein and Andrea Braccaloni at Politecnico di Milano. She works as a graphic designer in London. | |
Italian designer of the curly handprinted Romantic Font (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type design student of J. Clough at Politecnico in Milan in 2011. She created the sans face City (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Son of Giovanni Mardersteig, born in 1941. At nineteen he started setting type by hand at the Officina Bodoni under the guidance of his father. He studied at the Akademie für Graphische Gewerbe in Munich and joined the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Since 1974, he is the owner of Stamperia Valdonega. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about traditional typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the handprinted Seth New (2001), Max Andersson (2002), Ponchione (2007) and Clowes (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the hairline sans Prestinée Sans (2007), which has an excellent hairline weight. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Massimiliano Frangi
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Italian designer who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Sulcus, a pixelish design inspired by Sulcus, a work of the minimalist artist Carl Andre. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Teacher (b. 1964) of Visual Communication at the Politecnico di Milano and of Tools and Techniques of Graphic Design at the Rome University, La Sapienza. In 1995 he founded the Vitamina studio with Aldo Buscalferri, where he does graphic design work, calligraphy, photography, and illustration for industrial clients. In 2002, he became the creative director at Landor Associates in Milan. He is the vice-president of BEDA. His clients include MTV, Heineken, Onyx, Sony, Mediaset (TV network) and Blu (an Italian mobile phone company), for whom he created a company typeface, Blutype. He also made a hip version of Agenda, called Diario. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about type for branding and communication. Scan of some posters made in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Famous Italian typographer and graphic designer, b. 1931, Milan. Designer, with Tom Carnase, of WTC Our Bodoni (1989). In 1966, he set up Unimark International in New York City, which became the largest diseign firm of its day. He left Uimark in 1971, to set up Vigneeli Associats in New York City with his wife Lelli. He dismissed Emigre as a garbage pail of design. Famous for his designs and opinions, he once said that a designer should only use these five typefaces: Bodoni, Helvetica, Times Roman, Century and Futura. Another quote along the samne lines: In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest. In his Vignelli Canon (free PDF book on design), he mentions these six: Garamond (1532), Bodoni (1788), Century Expanded (1900), Futura (1930), Times Roman (1931) and Helvetica (1957) [However, in that booklet he uses 8 different type families: the above six, and Gill Sans and Univers]. Yves Peters' reaction: Massimo Vignelli clearly hasn't got a clue. It's not the first time a quote of his makes me cringe. I hope you appreciate I'm trying real hard to stay polite. Frankly, if I ever heard anyone say: "a music lover should only listen to 5 artists: Elton John, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Whitney Houston and Luciano Pavarotti" I'd go to great lengths to ridicule the billy sastard. Vignelli published New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970, New York, as Unimark International). Discussion of his work by the typophiles. Report of his presentation at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. Wikipedia link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1981), who lives in Como. Creator of Estro (2008), a geometric sans face. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matteo Billia
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Matteo Bologna
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Cofounder in 2012 with Leonardo Maltese of Studio Polpo. Together with Leonardo Maltese, Matteo Brogi (Rome) created the vintage signage typeface Forno (2013). Matteo designed the ornamental caps typeface Fishes (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his graphic design studies in Milan, Matteo Carraturo created the hairline display face Agita Pro (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
(Italian?) [T-26] designer of Nedian (a 1998 caps family in the style of Bank Gothic). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Treviso, Italy-based designer (b. 1989, Forlimpopoli, Italy) of the monoline avant garde sans typeface Antipasto (2007, Zeta Fonts). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Matteo Federico Bologna
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Graphic designer in Rome. He created a semi-octagonal typeface for logotypes and advertising called Tumentu (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
During his studfies in Syracuse, Italy, Matteo Milone created the high-contrast didone typeface Saluzzo (2013), which was named after Bodoni's birthplace. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Catanzaro, Italy, and born in 1985, Matteo Oliveiro designed the pretty handprinted ornamental font Bigattino (2008). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Roman designer who created a typeface in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mattia Compagnucci (b. 1984), Simone Iocco, Claudio Fina, Emanuele Serra and Marino Bressan cooperated on the Hono Sans typeface in 2011 while studying at the Accademia delle Arti e Nuove Tecnologie in Rome. Mattia lives in Milan. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian page. Maurizio Boscarol's introduction to typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maurizio Loreti
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Artist, teacher, graphic and web designer, born in Sasso Marconi, a small town outside Bologna, Italy. Since 1978 Osti has taught courses in Special Graphic Techniques and recently also the course of Progettazione Grafica, at the Accademia di Belle Arti. He works as an art director. In 2009 he received the Premio Marconi for Multimedia Art. In 1995, Maurizio Osti reconstructed and redesigned Ben Shahn's Folk Alphabet, which was originally created as lettering in 1940, with the consent and approval of Mrs. Bernarda Shahn and the Estate of Ben Shahn, under license from VAGA (New York). FF Folk (2003) is the only authorized and officially endorsed digital version of Shahn's well-known lettering. FontShop link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the type design program at Consorzio Poli.design di Milano. His graduation project involved the stencil face Fi (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Rimini in 1965, studied in Ravenna, and lives in Milan. He designed BabyMine (1997) and EctoPlasm (2001) at T-26 and Orbit Light (2002), Bioplasm (2002), Glass Flag (2002), Water Flag (2002), and Arab Stroke (2002) at Linotype. A freelancer for graphic design firms or publishing companies, he and Stefano Domizi founded Limbo, a graphic design studio in which they work mainly for fashion and furniture companies. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the fluidity of the typographic process. Home page. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman designer of the striped optical illusion font Kwerk (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer who made an exquisite "generative" skeletal alphabet, VX (2010). Cercles (2011), Nebula (2011) and Tangle (2011) are further experimental faces with mind-boggling details. I reproduce his "About" blurb because it is wonderful in its modesty---rare indeed, today: I didn't discover America. I am not an artist with a world-famous name. I don't solve political problems and what I write, never gets published. I have never supervised meetings. I have plans for my future, as a spiteful mouse from a famous cartoon. I don't smoke weed and I don't do coke. I can be someone or be no one at all. I do not have five figure number of friends, but there are some that are real and close to me. I'm not self-obsessed and probably never will be. And you shouldn't even to try to understand me... I'm only a design lover. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian artist who drew Alfabeto di Lettere Iniziali (ca. 1730), ornamental caps with scrolls and flourishes and then inhabited by satyrs, mermaids, Medusa heads, birds, cats, dogs, snakes, and other creatures. The letters were designed by Poggi, drawn in ink by Andrea Bimbi, and engraved by Lorenzo Lorenzi. A digital version was done by Jose Jimenez in 2010 called Mauro Poggi Ornamental Caps. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rome-based graphic designer (b. 1953, Rome), who spoke at ATypI in Rome in 2002. A paleographer and calligrapher, he is the author of Calligrafia. Fondamenti e procedure (Stampa Alternativa). He adores old Roman lettering, and has become one of the world's specialists on the topic. He teaches graphic design at the Università per Stranieri (University for Foreigners) of Perugia and at the Carlo Urbany Professional High School in Rome. His typefaces include
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Firenze, Italy-based designer of the techno sans typeface Prime (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer in Rome, b. 1988. She created the informal typeface Just For Fun (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claiming to be born in 1989 and hailing from Vatican City, this designer created the blackletter face Scaenarium Unus (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the handwriting font Breakfast at Michy's (2009, Fontcapture). She is a freelance web designer in Viareggio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Michele Cricco (Todi, Italy) is a graphic designer who runs Crimic Design Studio in Todi, Umbria, Italy. He designed Weltam (2003, an experimental alphabet that makes frequent use of rotated letters; his thesis project at ISIA di Urbino in 2002) and Eidos (2004, another experimental font on the same theme). The studio does identity design for companies. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer, and professor of type design at Poli Design in Milan. With Riccardo Olocco, Michele codesigned the caps faces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Bologna, Italy. Creator of Trasimeno (2012, modular typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mintea.org
| Masters degree student (b. 1983) at the Politecnico di Milano, who specializes in signage, wayfinding and information design. He researches traffic system fonts and typography. His Flickr page has scans of the Italy's Codice della Strada which dictates street type in Italy, and features his world map which shows the origin and the different "routes" taken by the two main typefaces used in world signs: the American Highway Gothic, published by the traffic engineer Ted Forbes in 1945 and the British Transport type by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, published in 1963. He also has photographs of traffic signs. Creator of the free family Flaminia (The League of Movable Type, 2009; see also here). He writes: Flaminia is a 2008 opensource project started as a Master Degree Thesis by Andrea Bergamini, an Italian graphic designer annoyed by the chaotic and poorly designed road signage system in his country. The leading idea was that tests taken in real-life conditions are the only way to validate the design of a font to be used for signage and that the final solution should always come from all of the modifications derived by those experiments. These considerations led to the design of Flaminia, a typographical system that allows its users and its future designers to quickly morph (through the use of Multiple Master axes) different variants of the glyphs. By allowing minimal changes of only one variable in the letter shapes, Flaminia also provides a tool to study which are the most relevant factors in the process of reading signs, and can be used free of charge for further researches in this field. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Molotro
| Molotro is Luciano Perondi's outlet, which he runs with Stefano Minelli and Valentina Montagna. This Italian type designer (b. Busto Arsizio, 1976) lives in Busto Arsizio (Varese). At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the logo-grammatic approach to type design: "Carattere senza un nome importante". His ATypI 2002 report is here. In this enlightening piece, you can read about his opinions on type. From 2000 on, he is lecturer at the Basic Design Lab of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2003 he founded the Research Team EXP. The research team, formed by type designers and psychologists, studies the reading process, the influences of the irregularity of typefaces on reading and the non linear script. EXP is now starting to work on the effects of presbiopia on reading and on how an adequate design of types could help presbiopian readers. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke about How does the irregularity of letters affect reading? His type designs include
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Great scribbly font Mochi! Windows and Mac. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monofonts (or: Monocromo Creative Factory)
| Monofonts is the font foundry of Studio Monocromo, a Creative Agency based in Florence, Italy. Katiuscia Mari and Andrea Cerboneschi are the founders of both Studio Monocromo and Monofonts, located in Firenze. Most of their fonts can be freely downloaded from Dafont. Creators of Fresko (2010), and the custom corporate sans family Opificio (2011, Andrea Cerboneschi) for a fashion and crafts company by the same name. Cerbetica (2011, Andrea Cerboneschi) is a reworked Helvetica. Diamante (2011, Katiuscia Mari) is a sans face with a condensed feel. Peppermint (2011, Katiuscia Mari) is a techno face. Tape Rail (2011) overlays straight edges and looks like an oriental simulation face. Square Block (2011) is octagonal. Fonts from 2012: Halfmoon. In 2013, they ublished Vintage Straps (a thin monoline sans). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Giovanni Mardersteig, and later Ron Carpenter, are responsible for the present version of Monotype Dante, an ageless classic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mucca Design
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Muccatypo.com
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Free typefaces at Muccatypo include the useless grunge faces Fax Mucca, Geo Mucca, Pepina Mucca, Melt Mucca and Up Down Mucca. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Murid Rahhal
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Eurostile (Aldo Novarese and Alessandro Butti, Nebiolo) and its derived typefaces, as selected from the MyFonts library. Another list of Eurostile fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Nadia Abate (Turin) designed the paperclip font Clips in 2010 during a workshop led by Piero De Macchi. She graduated from ISIA in Urbino in 2010, and designed the outline typeface Naa there. Nadia created the flowing script face Female (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian designer of Tanagra (1924), which in 1910-1911 won an award sponsored by the Fonderia Augusta. It appeared in 1924 in the publication "Archivio Tipografico", and was produced by Nebiolo in Turin. Varetti was a teacher at the Regio Scuola Tipografica in Turin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan, who during a course at Politecnico di Milano in 2012, co-created the hybrid typeface Gill Trump with Alejandra Sepulveda, Valentina Aufiero, Leo Colalillo, and Francesca Sperti. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caratteri Nebiolo (ca. 1956) is one of their last specimen books--we list all the types found in it. Specimen book from 1928: Societa Nebiolo Torino Caratteri e Fregi Tipografici. This file by Klingspor shows all the types ever made by Nebiolo. Catalog of digital typefaces that were made by various foundries based on Nebiolo designs. Another digital catalog of commercial Nebiolo typefaces. Another page with digital typefaces based on Nebiolo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
His work inspired Carlos Camargo Guerrero to create the Escheresque font Denedo (2001-2007). According to Camargo, Denedo is a font based in one of the impossible alphabets created by the Italian graphic designer Nedo Mion Ferrario during the 60's and 70's in Caracas, Venezuela, South America. Michael Parson designed the prismatic typeface Nedo in 2013 based on Ferrario's work. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer. His brand identity for Onychos (2011) has many nice typographic elements. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located in Milan, Italy, this graphic artist is the author at Behance of Bodoni tree (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type expert in Sassuolo near Modena, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based creator of the connect-the-dots typeface Concept (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator (b. Taranto) of the informal family Daimo For Kids (2009), which was designed while he was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jenson's typefaces influenced many new alphabets:
Brief bio by The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of UCLA. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
At Politecnico in Milan, Nicolo Arena and Claudia Consiglieri did research under Marta Bernstein on the use of typefaces in the music field. Nicolo Arena designed the compass and ruler-based typeface Tour Eiffel (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan who was born in 1990 in Ancona, Italy. In 2011, he made a grid and compass-based geometric face called Le Tour Eiffel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication design at Politecnico di Milano. He is experimenting with type design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer who was born and grew up in Milan. In 2011, he created The Fresh Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the rolodex style face Remigio (2009), a face designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan. In 2008, he designed the Peignotian typeface Claire. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pisa-based foundry whose work can be seen in Campione dei caratteri, fregi e vignette della tipografia dei fratelli Nistri (Pisa, 1839). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF, an image or a Quicktime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented. Examples include this thesis at Politecnico di Milano in 2007 that gives a Python script for creating illuminated letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
NOW Type
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Obostudio is a Florence-based design studio specialised in brand development. They created OBO Font in 2012 and write: "Typefaces are like clothes. They either make us look good or bad. They also indicate what kind of character we want to portray." OBO Font is a new typeface inspired by the wind. OBO Typeface should be used for logo design, monograms and other creative fields feeling moved by the wind. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Officine Simoncini
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. MyFonts catalog. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Italian creator of a nice type poster called The Baseline Grid (2011). She is based in Rome. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Olcar Alcaide
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An ex-student of the IUAV in Venezia, where she wrote a thesis on road signage. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, she almost spoke about road signs and pictograms but her talk was canceled to to the birth of her child. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Omnibus Typographi
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His typefaces, all at Linotype: Omnibus (1993), Goudy Village (1994), |
Enrico Bravi's 3-d type project. Bravi graduated in Graphics at the ISIA in Urbino with a thesis titled Graphica Programmata. From 1999 to 2002 he collaborated with Nofrontiere Design in Vienna. He now lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Speaker at ATypI 2005 in Helsinki. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ottaviano Scoto of Monza (or Ottaviano Scotus) headed a distinguished family of Venetian printers. Born of a noble family of Monza, he went to Venice at the age of 35 and operated a press there between 1479 and 1484. He continued as an editor until 1499 whereupon his heirs, including his brothers and nephews, undertook their own activity (1499-1532). His blackletter types were in the style of Anton Koberger's. Based on his etters, Paulo W made the typefaces ScotoKobergerFrakturN11 (2007) and ScotoKobergerFrakturN9 (2007). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Oven Foundry
| Manuele Mascheroni is a freelance designer and founder of Oven Foundry, born in 1988 with Italian and Belgian origins. While based in Bologna for his MA degree in Design Management, he designed the German expressionist typeface Weiss (2013) and Explorer (2013: a grotesk). Earlier, he created the interesting blackboard bold face Lione (2010, free at Dafont). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian outfit which made the sexy high-contrast fashion mag face Cut Font (2010). Bewhance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of the fashion mag typeface Cut (2010), which was part pf a project called Paper Cut Fold. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pacioli
| Peter R. Wilson's metafont code (1999) for Pacioli. The pacioli package provides fonts designed by Fra Luca de Pacioli in 1497. The font is uppercase letters together with punctuation and some analphabetics; no lowercase or digits. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Italian designer (b. 1980) of the experimental face Speci.ALE (2009) and the geometric paper cut face Diamond D (2009). She is related to the Ludiko site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Panos Voulgaris (b. 1983) is an architectural student in Venice, Italy. He lists his place of residence as Thessaloniki, Greece. Creator at FontStruct (under the alias Rotweiler83) of the modular techno face Raptor Sans (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2010, Paola Berardelli finished her Bachelors Degree in Communication Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 2011, she created the organic typeface Kihon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paola Gallo (Lecco, Italy) created a wonderful logotype to express suffocation, called Soffocato (2012). It is a set in a warm plump type, as well as in an Ed Benguiat Interlock style compositionC, created during a course at Politecnico di Milano in 2011 with Giangiorgio Fuga. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small archive by Paolo Batori, who is the Italian designer (b. 1976) of the artsy octagonal face Batho (2007). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paolo Beraldo (b. 1984) of zero8production in Italy designed a battery of pixel faces, all called Pixel Berry. I cannot find download buttons, but one of the fonts, Pixel Berry 08/84 (2003) is free at Dafont where he is known as zero8. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type designer. The Farfa typeface (2008, designed together with Mauro Zennaro) was developed for the city of Fara in Sabina. This typeface, with historical and Carolingian roots, was published at Eurotypo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the slightly inflated sans family Monkey (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. Fermignano, 1973) of the experimental font Elise (2000). He lives in Fermignano. At the School of Graphic Design in Urbino, he wrote a thesis on Wim Crouwel. As a result, his fonts are expertimental and geometric: Zen (2002, looks like lego blocks), Eroi (2001, artistic stencil font), Rainbow Type (2001, dot matrix font), CuboType (2001), Paradise (2001, fonts nailed to the wall), Ale (2000, only circles and lines, a cross between a kitchen tile and a Codex font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Trieste in 1955, he has been active in Italy in visual design and corporate identity. With Vetta, he runs CODEsign in Trieste since 2000. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about typographical architecture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paolo Vannucci
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Italian codesigner with Andrea Braccaloni (Leftloft) of the extreme didone titling face LL Officiel (or: L'Officiel Titles) for French fashion magazine L'Officiel. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paolo Cancello Tortora (or Paul Gatedove) is the Italian creator of the logo font Movies and Games (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of the counterless face Paula (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illuminator who created the Alphabet of Paulini (1570). Beinecke Library writes: "Nothing is known of Paulini, the designer and engraver of this Mannerist alphabet--not even his first name. Each letter is a fantastic composite of human figures, botanical and marine specimens, landscapes or cityscapes, with a frame of arabesques, grotesques, putti, antique statuary, and the like. No two frames are identical. Each letter encapsulates a mythological episode from Ovid, A for Actaeon, B for Bacchus, C for Cadmus, etc. The Ovidian episode is illustrated behind each letter, and printed captions identify the figures." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pavlov Design
| Pavlov Design offers free Mac typefaces by Emanuele Fabrizioli: Spraygun (stencil), Sushimix, Blackblock (techno font reminiscent of Wim Crouwel's lettering), Molecola, Pseiko (LCD font), Puerto Plata Market (stencil, inspired by a face made by Leonardo Sonnoli for the Biblioteca San Giovanni). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Peter R. Wilson
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Behance link. Flickr page, where one can find more experimental types, like AbstractMin (2010), AbstractStruct (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pier Francesco Martini, a graphic designer in Firenze, Italy, created Bahn, a display font inspired by the old Austrian Bahn signs. Free version. Creative market link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he cretted the monoline octagonal typeface Segmentum, and the poster face Sportiva. Pierfrancesco's logo and typography work includes beauties such as a fish called Aperitivo (2011), and a foot illustration called Walking (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian co-designer (from Bari) with Roberto Brunetti of the funny dingbat fonts Toon in Time and Muscles (in Poptics style) both at Garagefonts, 1999. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
De Macchi's company, De Macchi Progetti Grafici, is located in Torino. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer and typographer. Creator of the monospaced VWK Mono (2009), Dot (2009, dot matrix), Figures (2009), and Wagon (2009, soft octagonal face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Trieste in 1955, d. 2003). He was active in Italy in visual design and corporate identity. With Tassinari, he ran CODEsign in Trieste since 2000. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about typographical architecture. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer at Nebiolo. He was part of a team (with Giancarlo Illiprandi, Bruno Munari, Ilio Negri, Till Neuburg, Luigi Oriani and Franco Grignani) that designed the lineale family Forma from 1966-1970 under the direction of Aldo Novarese. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Information and user interface designer at Designr.it in Florence. His diary on the web is exquisitely typeset. He has tens of useful tips for web typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pixel Orchestra
| Bruno Capezzuoli (Pixel Orchestra, Rome) created the typefaces Glitch (experimental) and Ettore (alchemic) in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Perugia, Italy, who created the free typeface Bokeh (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Great place in Italy for studying typography. Teachers in the Dipartimento di Industrial Design, delle Arti, della Comunicazione e della Moda include Giovanni Anceschi (who is now at IUAV in Venice) and Mario Piazza. Pictures at Flickr. The impressive staff includes James Clough (history), Giangiorgio Fuga (ype metrics and introduction), Piero De Macchi (type design), Michele Patanè (FontLab), Andrea Braccaloni and Luciano Perondi (thesis projects). The hosts are Mauro Zennaro and Claude Marzotto. Students in 2007: Bellucci Carmine, Casanova Lorenzo, Debenedetti Chiara, Viggiano Cira, Ciufo Erasmo Alessandro, Capo Daniele, Dugo Marco, Magni Fabio Ambriogio, Marchi Ilaria, Jannello Ludovica, Pezzotta Marina, Olocco Riccardo, D'Alessandro Paola, Pasqualicchio Carlo, Belli Pietro, Pini Azzurra, Rui Chiara, Tassi Roberta, Scalia Veronica, Tomietto Anna, Laurora Nicola. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Polystudio
| Francesco Messina (b. 1952, Udine) is a graphic designer and principal of Polystudio in Tricesimo, Udine. He is the creator of Bomfield, a semi-serif version of Fairfield and Bodoni, created in his "Bompiani graphic project". Quite interesting! |
These people made some ransom note fonts out of ZurichBT-BlackExtended and FuturaBT-Light: Personals01 through 05, dated 1999. Poor quality stuff, by the way. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Protofonts (and Loosy Design)
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Free UNIX program for making a PostScript program into an HTML file. By Alessandro Agostini, Daniele Andreuccetti and Stefano Cerreti at the Florence Research Area and Electromagnetic Research Institute of National Research Council in Florence, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic artist in Firenze (and soon London). She made Blackout (2010, a geometric face), and Pac (2010, a circular face, inspired by Pacman). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Milan-based designer of the Bauhaus-style stencil font WRD Sans (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian foundry. Their work is shown in Raimondi&Zucca, fonderia caratteri (Milano, Raimondi&Zucca, 193?, 179 pages). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rauch Design
| Rauch Design is an Italian corporate identity company with an impossible web page. They made the heavy rounded shadow face Ombratonda (2008). The experimental stencil face Creabc (2007) was designed by Andrea Rauch and Sephora Laghi (Rauch Design) and digitally optimized by Gianni Sinni (LCD) for the signs and identity of the Festival della Creatività in Firenze, October 2007. Andrea Rauch is an Italian graphic designer who made a custom type for the city of Siena, drawing inspiration from fifteenth century inscriptions of Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Sergio Polano writes: The Graphiti office operates since 1983 in Florence, the less than half-a-million people capital of Tuscany, one of the extraordinary Italian towns of art. The work of the partners Andrea Rauch, Stefano Rovai, Walter Sardonini ranges from visual to book design, from exhibition to stage design but keeps his roots (as for Dolcini Associati) in the experiences of the grafica di pubblica utilità. The variegate poster production of Graphiti in the 1990s confirm and deepens the diverging approaches of office founders Rauch and Rovai, that instead seem trying to cohabit in the Sardonini works. The calli-graphic, illustrative, self-indulgent hand of Rauch is clearly recognizable in pen-and-ink drawings, on very simple backgrounds; while the photo-graphic eye of Rovai likes the perceptive complication and the image fragmentation, ending in syncopated montages of pictures and words. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ray Oranges (b. 1983, Firenze, Italy) pushed modular constructions to the limit in his experimental typeface A Quarter Of Cake (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian site which shows various comic book faces for a comic strip called Recreo. The site is managed by Marzia Lorusso and Alessandro Micheli in Bologna. Faces on the page are by Seth, James Sturm, Adrian Tomine, Daniel Clowes, Igor Tuveri, and Max Andersson. Additional typefaces by unknown designers: Norma, Ochs, Recreo, Resistance. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Resistenza
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In 2010, he made the circular multiline face Afrobeat (+Light), the fat counterless face Vito Sans (2010), Wonderwall (2010, like a skeletal construction), the high-contrast art deco face Zaza (2010), and the pure Italian vintage art deco face Luxx (futurism). His type blog is called It's Not My Type. Behance link. Klingspor link. Creattica link. Other work: an art deco poster. Direct links to his fonts: Zaza, Afrobeat, Vito Sans, Luxx, Wonder Wall, Afrobeat Light. Creations from 2011: Ratatan, Bodoni At Home (a handpainted Bodoni), Arcanotype (2011, delicate caps, individually drawn using Chinese ink on Japanese calligraphy paper), Babushka (2011), Dolce Caffe (2011, handprinted), Adelaida (handprinted poster face), Monella (octagonal). Production in 2012: Ampersanders (a font with many ampersands), BLAQ (an ornamental blackletter caps face inspired by Henry W. Troy), The Bay (handprinted all caps poster face), Bratislove (an artsy hand-drawn typeface), Modernissimo, Clementina (hand-printed caps), Afrobeat Gothic (angular multiline face). Typefaces from 2013: Caramello Script, Copperlove (copperplate script), Yma Italic (retro script), Sonica Brush. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Italian designer of the free face Bubble Sharp (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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During his graphic design studies in Italy, Riccardo Fissore created the experimental circle-based typeface Kuplat (2013) for an imaginary bubbly underwater world. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Milan, who made Vintage Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer, with Michele Patanè, of the commercial caps faces Cordial Bloom (2009) and Cordial Cherry (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Florence, Italy. He created the ornamental caps faces Mekkanika (2011) and Brushwood (2011). In 2012, he added the beautiful 3d cube face Hexahedra and the beveled typeface Embossy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Robert Granjon
| Born in Rome, 1513-1589. He did most of his work in Paris. Granjon's designs live on in the balanced Plantin family, designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1913 at Monotype, and available at Linotype (and elsewhere). The Gothic italic typeface Civilité (1566) is also due to him, as well as Parangonne Grecque. W.A. Dwiggins' Eldorado (153) was based on an early roman lowercase of Granjon. Font Bureau's Eldorado (1993-1994), developed by David Berlow, Jane Patterson, Tobias Frere-Jones and Tom Rickner for Premiere Magazine, was a far-reaching extension of that. Brigitte Schuster did a revival of Monotype Plantin at KABK in 2010. Scans of original work: First Italic (1543), Italique Petit Romain (1543), Gros Cicero (1569), Saint Augustin (1580), French Civilité (1566). The Linotype Granjon face designed by George W. Jones in 1928 is a garamond though---Jones used Granjon's work as a model for his italic---, and the name seems to suggest that Granjon created the model for this garamond, which is not the case. Image of Linotype's Granjon. For related typefaces, see ITC Galliard (1978, Matthew Carter). Images of digital typefaces that descend from Granjon's work. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Bergamo, Italy. In 2010, she designed Nervo Ottico 2, a typewriter face that was inspired by Courier New. It was part of Roberta's type design course project at Politecnico di Milano, done under the guidance of Andrea Braccaloni. Nervo Ottico 1 was made by co-sdtudent Yuri Ferrari. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Florence, Italy. She created a font based on old Bulgarian lettering in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. 1971) who graduated from the Art Institute of Parma. He is currently the main designer for MTV Italia. He created the gothic font Grimoire, first as a logo for the group Barbie Car and later for some MTV titles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roberto Baldassari
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Italian creator of the free font Brivido (2011, OFL). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian co-designer (from Bari) with Pierluigi Portolano of the funny dingbat fonts Toon in Time and Muscles (in Poptics style) both at Garagefonts, 1999. Designed the fifties diner style font Inhumaine (Garagefonts) as well. He also made Petrologos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Naples, Italy, Roberto Cacace did some interesting hand-drawn lettering in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Treviso, Italy-based creator (b. 1975) of the original experimental face Aierbazzi (2008), in which letters are placed on top of each other to make combinations. He also made the free dingbat face Bagarozz (2010). Home page. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roberto F
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Digital photographer and graphic designer in Bergamo, Italy. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface AlfaBasura (2012), which was based on garbage. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman, b. 1969. Home page called Psy Tech. With Luca de Bellis, he designed the upright script HandScript-LCase4LR (2009). He also made LR Talisman (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the informal script face WGraf (2010), a face designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome who made the pixelish monospace display typeface The Only Person (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Rimini, who made a nice typographic poster called Party and Bullshit (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ronchi Tubaro Thom
| RTT is Ronchi Tubaro Thom, an outfit in Milan, Italy, involved in typography, graphic design and calligraphy. Its principals are Anna Ronchi, Ivana Tubaro and Stuart Thom. Born in 1962, Anna Ronchi is primarily a calligrapher. She studied visual design at the Politecnico in Milan, and lives in that city. She co-founded the Italian Calligraphy Association and has taught many calligraphy courses via that Association. Her typefaces include Etruria (2000, an archaic lapidary font made for "La Operina", the association's magazine), Baby (1999, a Flintstone font created for the launch of Baby Martini), Serate (2001, a swashy face) and Mulino Bianco (1999, a calligraphic font done for a Barilla ad campaign). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Naples-based designer of the connect-the-dots typeface Doretypo (2013). In 2013, he set up his own commercial foundry. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Turin-based typographer and illustrator. The Corporation font (2011) is a geometric experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer who created a modular counterless alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Digital descendants include Larisch (2007, HiH), an all-caps handlettered design based on the title page of Beispiele Kunstlerischer Schrift (1903). Samples of his work: an outline capitals alphabet, an art nouveau piece entitled Moderne Architektur. In 1995, Harald Suess wrote about him in die Deutsche Schrift, Nr. 117, volume 4: A | B | C | D | E. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the free elliptical titling face Fat Font (2011). In 2012, he made the ultlined caps typeface Grande Andretti. Web site<>/a>. Additional URL. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian graphic designer who lives in Rome. Creator of the display typeface Rain (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fontspace link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and animation designer in London. Behance link. She seems to have designed the flared serif face Jin (2009, Politecnico de Milan). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Lecco in 1990, Sara is a student at ISIA Urbino since 2009. During a course with Albert Pinggera, she designed the angular typeface family Ieri (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the round organic monoline face Castiglioni (2011). She lives in Florence, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Architect in Venice who created Cromic (2013), a thin geometric display typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Naples, b. 1988, who created the hand-printed typefaces New Comic Age (2012) and Calligrafia Sara (2012). | |
Padova-based calligrapher who produced some calligraphic alphabets, ca. 1604. See also his Book on lace with Antonello Bertozzi, also 1604. Examples: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner of Jane Patterson in the Milan-based Design Lab type foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian Mannerist architect, engraver and painter of the sixteenth century, who designed some of the most refined variants of the classic Roman letters---the prototypical Italian Renaissance roman alphabet, also known as Serlio's alphabet. Born in Bologna in 1475, he died in 1554. He was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. An excellent model for constructing the Roman capitals in a standard form can be found in the geometric compass-and-ruler adaptation by A. R. Ross from an alphabet of capitals drawn by Sebastiano Serlio, an Italian architect, engraver and painter of the sixteenth century, who devised some of the most refined variants of the classic Roman letter. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Associazione Culturale Calligrafia e Lettering in Torino, Italy, organizes workshops and courses on a variety of topics, some of which are related to calligraphy and the history of type. For example, from 14-15 March 2009, there was a course on Gothic Textura. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sergio Lelli
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Professor of Aesthetics, Architecture Faculty, IUAV University in Venice, b. 1950. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he spoke about the state of art in type design in Italy and the history of Italian type design in the twentieth century. He wrote extensively on Aldo Novarese: "Aldo Novarese: Letters Are Things" (Emigre, Sacramento, vol. 26, spring 1993, pp. 30-37), "Aldo Novarese. Progettare l'alfabeto" (Arte|Documento|, Udine, vol. 7, 1993, pp. 339-344), "So long, Aldo!" (TypeLab Gaczeta, Barcelona, Sept. 1995, vol. 3, p. 2), "Aldo Novarese letterista 1920-1995" (Casabella, Milano, vol. 632, March 1996, pp. 46-49), "Alfa-beti: sintesi di scrittura e figura" (sintesi, Perugia, vol. 8, March 2000). See also here. Also known as Poison Galore. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian design studio in Perugia. Behance link. For Riccini, they created a futuristic geometric sans typeface in 2009, Riccini Aureo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sezione Aurea
| An Italian company involved in identity and brand design. Founded in 2002 by Alessandro Pascoli and Daniele Paoletti. Pascoli created the experimental geometric typeface Riccini Aureo in 2005. It was a brand face for Riccini in Perugia to replace Blippo, totally conceived on the basis of geometric patterns as in the days of Dürer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sfaranda
| Murid Rahhal (aka Sfaranda) works in UAE and in Messina, Sicily. He used a grid and circles in the design of Geometry Font (2010, free). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Italian mathematician and astronomer from Ferrara. He published Theorica et Practica de modo scribendi fabricandique omnes litterarum species (Venice: Giovanni Rosso, 1514). In 1535, he published the penmanship book Thesauro de scrittori : opera artifisiosa laquale con grandissima arte si per pratica come per geometria insegna a scrivere diversa sorte littere... . Quoting this site: Fanti published this work so that secretaries, copyists, merchants, and artisans could learn techniques of applying geometry to the construction of letterforms. These woodcuts of the capital letters "D" and "E" are examples of how Fanti used geometric patterns in the design of his letters. The circle and the square, the building blocks of classical architecture and the basis for letter designs that appeared in Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione, published in Venice in 1509, provide a starting point for Fanti. He, however, pushed past the limits of Pacioli's theory of proportion by applying principles of geometry to extend the lines of his letterforms beyond the limits imposed by the proportionality of the circle and the square. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Communication design student at Politecnico di Milano, who lives in Modena. She designed Liquid Stencil (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of a monoline geometric display typeface called Impara L'Arte (2013), which was developed during her studies in Rome. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who studied at the Instituto Europeo di Design, Milan, Italy. Creator of this children's handwriting face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Silvia Sfligiotti
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Teacher of editorial design at the Accademia di Comunicazione in Milano, and coauthor of "La grafica in Italia". Partner in Studio Bianca. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, she spoke about contemporary type design in Italy. Her talk was a summary of "Italic 1.0 Il disegno di caratteri contemporaneo in Italia Contemporary Type Design in Italy", an English-Italian book edited by Paola Lenarduzzi, Mario Piazza and Silvia Sfligiotti and published by AIAP in 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who lives in Turin. Silvia made a few rounded typefaces, both in the sans genre (Draghettico, 2011) and in the slab style (Nardello, 2011). She also created the dingbats Icons GQ Italia (2011) and Icons (2011, for web site usage). She created the rounded display face Narello (2012) and the moustache-themed blackboard bold typeface Mousta (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the informal sans face Claus (2010). Developed with the help of Nino Perrone and Michele Colonna, it is based on inscriptions in the San Nicola church in Bari. Free download. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and motion graphics artist in Milan, who made the constructivist face 1983 (2010). Vimeo link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simon Laudati (Nssfactory, a social media factory in Milan) created D-Type Font (2012), a paper-fold typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian creator of Vipera Cattiva (2011, iFontMaker), a handprinted face. She also made the curly face Vipera Buona (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Compare various Simoncini Garamond typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Carate Brianza, Italy-based scientist who was born in 1978 and graduated from the University of Milan. Creator of Simon's Marker (2011, iFontMaker), a handprinted face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simone Giorgio
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Fantastic web page about kanji and Japanese language software. Includes the following fonts: SimonRad, BlabyNewRoman, Japanese&Sanskrit. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome, who used Roger Penrose's Penrose tiling in the construction of a set of ornamental numbers in 2013. For the Order Of Architects, P.P.C. of Rome and Province and the Order Of Engineers of Rome, he created a prismatic caps face called Seventeen Lines (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A set of illustrations called Chicks&Wheels: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. The calendar: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii. In 2013, he published a sequel, Chicks and Types Volume 2. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic designer and illustrator who made the monoline mini-stenciled face Stycky (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based designer of Square (2013), a paper-fold typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Simone Wolf, born in Germany, now lives and works in Italy from where she runs her studio typevents Italy. She has worked in the graphic arts field since 1999, specializing in marketing, consultancy and PR. She also organizes seminars, conferences and events. She has been a visiting professor at universities in Milan and Florence. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian creator of the serifed curly monospaced typewriter face Gilda Typewriter (2009), which was designed while she was studying at the Politecnico in Milan. Home page at Venti Zero Nove, which Sonia runs with partner Nicola Iannibello in Milan. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the type design program at Consorzio Poli.design di Milano. Her graduation project involved the stencil / architectural face Primo Nomografo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian graphic design company in Correggio. At Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Souldavid (or: Wrktag, or: Work It)
| Genova, Italy-based designer of the free fonts Werktag (2012, graffiti font) and Ecliptic (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer based in Rome, b. 1989. Designer of reNOISE (2007, fat futuristic all caps display face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
History of typography and type design (in Italian): "Il carattere da stampa e sua evoluzione stilistico-progettuale", by Andrea Marconi and Franco Marinelli. Main page entitled Stamperia e Caratteri. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Turin-based printer. For their typefaces, see Saggio dei caratteri e fregi della Stamperia di compositori-tipografi (Torino, 1866). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parma-based printshop. For their typefaces, see Saggio di caratteri, e fregi (Torino, 1780) and Saggio di caratteri (Torino, 1770). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of Mr. Whippy (2011), a fluffy typeface inspired by ice cream and whipped cream. He studied at Politecnico di Milano. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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He used Fontifier to design the handwriting face whitesteve (2004). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Milan who created the broken line display face Cusack (2012), the counterless geometric octagonal face Rectagon (2012) and the piano key font Proof (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Liquor Jug Font (2012), Boxkämpfer (2012) and Speed Freak Font (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stefano Meriggi
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Graphic and editorial designer in Milan. In 2010 he designed a large type family, Tremila. He writes: Tremila is a typographic system designed for the city of Genoa. It has been conceived to give the Italian seaport a strong and bold identity, in order to improve all tourism-related communication. While the rounded terminations give Tremila a young and playful feel, its large x-height and open forms make the typeface ideal for official documents and signage too. The system consists of two main fonts, Tremila Sans and Tremila Unicase. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Stefano Perrone graduated in 2008 in Industrial Design from the Politecnico of Milan and has a Masters degree in Art Direction in 2010 from IED of Milan. He currently works at Saatchi & Saatchi in Milan. Creator of the octagonal typeface Factory (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A web portal for phy and design. It has beautiful typographic posters too. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer who lives in Milan. He has made an "Arabian funky fraktur font" (sic) in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of the sans face Std This (2005) and Std Brixia (2006), which includes the hairline face Std Brixia Thin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Di un patetico saggio di caratteri tipografici (Firenze, Sansoni, 1960). I haven't seen that book yet, but with such an intriguing title, I will make it a must for my next trip to Harvard. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The students at Politecnico in Milan designed many sans serif fonts during the 1997-1998 academic year: OPTIFOUR was made by Luca Cenerelli, Elisa De Luca, Simona Di Liddo, Alberto Lavadini, Federico Muratori, Andrea Muzzini and Wladimir Testa. PHONEFONT is due to Annalisa Biffi, Paolo Brambilla, Lucia Caccia, Simona Carena, Daniela Casiraghi, Daniela Cipriani, Erik Ciravegna, Lorenzo Cocola, Annalisa Migliazza, and Guido Nava. PHONET was made by Luca Arrigoni, Matteo Astolfi, Annalisa Baga, Gian Luca Balzerano, Liborio Biancolillo, Matteo Capitini, Francesca Castagnetti, Fabio Cardano, Stefano Carrozza and Cristian Confalonieri. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian antiquarian type bookseller run by sara Bassi in Mantova, Italy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonts sold by MyFonts: the DIN-inpired 6-style sans family Superbastone (2006), the futuristic Stereotype family (2005), the skull dingbat font Catacumbes (2006), the ransom note font Cavillus (2006), the dog dingbat font Charliedog (2006), the leafs dingbat font (2006), the Stencil G family (2006) and the rounded octagonal family Pied de Poule Text (2006) were codesigned by all three founders. In 2007, they added Insects (dingbats), Design We Like (dingbats), MyFace (an award-deserving collection of faces), Friz Biz (simple children's hand), Washing Machine (dingbats), Superbastone (sans family), Superclosed, Supersquared, Superstarlike, and Superwood. In 2008, we saw the publication of Retrofont, a very condensed high contrast sans. In 2009, the dot matrix face Superpois saw the light. Behance link. [Google]
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Studio Cheste (est. 1995) is a Venice-based project by Peppe Clemente who is involved in editorial, identity and corporate design. Cooperators include Isabella Zegna, Paola Fortuna, Dario Serio, Gioia Stocco, Enrica Cavarzan, Francesco Zambello, Laura Scala, Elisabetta Cassin, and Arnel Heljia. Creators of the modular organic sans typeface GAT (2012), where GAT stands for Giovani a Teatro. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio Kmzero (or: ZeroFont)
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Studio Volk
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Designer of the rolodex / horizontal stencil style face Halfont (2010), a face designed during a course at Politecnico in Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of the experimental caps typefaces Faber (2012) and NSWE (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bembo is the name given in 1929 by Stanley Morrison to his revival of type in use in 1495 Venice by the printer Aldus Manutius. Textism decries Monotype's digital version of this font. Minion (Robert Slimbach) is another revival, but it is quite far from the original. View various digital versions of Monotype Bembo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer of Ultras Liberi (2008), an experimental display face. Alternate URL. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Worst Truetype Font
| This very original free handwriting font is simply called "The Worst", but in my view, a better name is "The Best". Its author is Roberto F (b. Torino, Italy, 1967). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Claudio Piccinini's type pages for critiques and showcasing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Letterpress and typefoundry located in Firenze, Italy, est. 1950. At dafont, and on their home page, they offer the free font Typography Times (2013), which is like Times, but with sharper edges and corners---the dagger and harpoon look. The same harpoon theme returns in the free sans typeface Leo Arrow (2013). Dafont link. Fontspace link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bilingual (Italian/English) type magazine launched in 2009 by Claudio Rocha (editor-in-chief) and Simone Wolf (managing editor). The editorial board consists of Sandro Berra, James Clough, Giada Coppi, Giangiorgio Fuga, Piero de Macchi and James Mosley. As a teaser, issue 1 (2009) has articles on lettering on letter boxes, the Dante typeface, Nebiolo specimens, covers of the Campo Grafico magazine, Piero de Macchi, and "The Italian monstrosity" (by James Clough). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian type museum in Cornudo (Treviso), also called Museo del Carattere e della Tipografia. It has a printshop, library and archive, and it organizes casting workshops. The museum has some section devoted to Italian type designers and Italian type. The following types are exhibited:
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Tiziana Alocci (Milan) created an interesting parametric font in 2012 called Trapezifont. She writes: Trapezifont is a parametric font created in FontLab through the programming language Python. The glyphs were not drawn in a traditional way, with the Bezier curves but writing the codes inside the edit macro of FontLab. Trapezifont works according to one variable included between 0 and 100 that can be set at will. Once set the script the font is re-drawn as to the variable given changing the value of the tapering of each glyph. She is pursuing a masters degree in Communication Design at the Politecnico of Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Roman graphic designer. He created a condensed geometric typeface for Digital Art Magazine (2011) based on a carefully planned hexagonal grid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian student at the Politecnico of Milan, 2009-2012. He created the quaint Perrier typeface (2012) together with his co-students Federico Meroni, Gianluca Malimpensa and Pietro Mazza. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milan-based designer who studied at the New Academy of Fine Arts (N.A.B.A.) in Milan. Creator of The Finger Font (2012) and The Hipster Font (2012, a paper-fold face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Monza, Italy-based designer of the paper-fold typeface Carta (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Venice-based graphic designer who created a great calligram called Moka in 2012. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toni Pecoraro was born in Favara (Agrigento) Italy in april 1958. In 1977 he graduated from the Agrigento Institute of Art. From 1977 to 1981 he studied decoration at Florence Fine Arts Academy. From 1985 to 1990 he taught Engraving Techniques at Macerata Fine Arts Academy. At present he is teaching Engraving Techniques at Bologna Fine Arts Academy, and lives in Montefiore Conca. On his web site, he placed a reedited version of Giovanni Antonio Tagliente's 1530 book published in Venice. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The Tsolyani Modern Typeface is derived from the notes in the Empire of the Petal Throne gamebook. Made by Roger Pearsei in 1995. Shareware. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry: Italian writing masters and calligraphers of the 16th and 17th centuries
| James Mosley researched the names of all the calligraphic writers, mostly professionals, working in Italy between 1501 and 1700, whose names have been recorded:
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Outfit specializing in the organization of type conferences such as ATypI. The team: Caroline Archer (UK-based), Simone Wolf (born in Germany, lives in Italy), Shelley Gruendler (American who lives in Canada), and Alexandre Parré (French architect, lives in the UK). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tour of Italian typography, as found on the streets, buildings, and in daily life. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
History of type. Specially detailed pages on historical type in Toulouse and Venice, and by Balzac and Gutenberg. Musea. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian designer (b. 1978) who used FontStruct in 2008 to create Crystal-Lightning, a lightbulb-signage font. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ugo da Carpi (b. ca. 1455, d. ca. 1523) was an Italian painter and printmaker who worked in woodcut. Author of the handwriting book Thesauro de Scrittori (1535). This book was republished in 1968 by Nattali and Maurice (London). An alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the pen script font Grafico (Cooperativa, 1965), characterized by a large x-height, the grotesque family Linea (Cooperativa, 1966-1969), Calligrafia, Armonia (calligraphic) and Brio (script face at Mecanorma). He has worked with Aldo Novarese and Pietro De Macchi at Nebiolo in Turin, and was afterwards artistic director at Fonderia Tipografica Cooperativa di Peschiera Borromeo, where he designed Linea, Sigla, as well as Arabic and Hebraic alphabets. Linea, in particular, is his major type design oeuvre---it contains weights called Linea Tonda Chiara, Linea Tonda Neretta, Linea Corsiva Neretta, Linea Nera, Linea Nerissima, Linea Neretta Stretta, Linea Nera Stretta, Linea Nerissima Compatta and Linea Profil. From 1974-1996, he was professor of typography and calligraphy at the Istituto Statale Isia di Urbino, while from 1969-1998, he taught lettering at the Scuola Politecnica di Design di Milano. In 1996, he became professor of calligraphy and lettering at NABA, the Nova Academia di Belli Arti in Milan, Italy. PDF of his work by Hans Reichardt. Gio Fuga's info on him. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Brace (2009), a type based on curly braces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of Charpentier (2009, script face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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UP Comunicazione
| UP Comunicazione (Mark Tamagnini, Reggio nell Emilia, Italy) created the elliptical sans typeface family UP TM and the corporate branding typeface Aquila Italiana in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Little-known foundry in Milan, active in the early part of the 20th century. I wonder if this company is the same as the ones which produced the lettering for the Urania typewriter in 1926. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Utilitype
| Matteo Billia (Utilitype) is the Italian designer of the free heart-textured Valentine's Day font Moltissimo Hearted Borders (2013). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Paris-based Italian type designer (b. 1972) who designed Estrella (1996), a Basque font based on research she did at L'école Estienne (1996) on Basque art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For a course at Politecnico in Milan, Valentina Aufiero, Leo Colalillo, Alejandra Sepulveda Hernandez and Francesca Sperti codesigned Gill Trump in 2013. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Runs Molotro in Italy with Luciano Perondi and Stefano Minelli. She codesigned the medieval ornaments font Eye of Goat (2005) with Perondi and Federico Zerbinati. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Valeria Necchi (Milan) graduated in Design Communication at Politecnico di Milano. She is preparing her doctoral thesis on social communication. She was inspied by street signs in the city of Trento when she created the informal family De Trentum (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian comic book site. Creator of the free comic book caps font Vermi Di Rouge (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art director in Milan. Creator in 2013 of a typeface that extends the Pelikan fountain pen logo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rome. Creator of the round black face Paped (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Creative designer from Naples who is based in Bristol, UK. At Behance, one can enjoy his semi-industrial typeface NeoEnz (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer in Russi. Home page. Creator of Eros Simboli and Eros Simboli Simboli (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Palermo, Sicily-based designer of Gravity, a compass-and-ruler font that is going to be used as an official font by Accademia di Belle Arti Palermo. He created the free experimental type family Mun (2012). Behance link. Graphicbox link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Virag Nobile (Milan, Italy) created the Bauhaus stencil / piano key typeface ComuniGó (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, Cecilia Negri and Virginia Nardelli, both located in Milan, took the Fiat logo, and set out to design a full (condensed, octagonal) alphabet by extrapolation, called the Fiat Typeface. Virginia is a designer and illustrator. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Milan. In 2009, he made a Mexican fiesta--meets Russian industry face called Vibskov. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Rovato, Brescia, Italy, b. 1975. He cofounded Studio Charlie with Carla Scorda and Gabriele Rigamonti, with whom he codesigned the futuristic Stereotype family (2005). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
His free---mostly hand-drawn---fonts, shown in 2013 on Dafont, include Catena (connect-the-dots), Ludico, Mussati, Asilum, Anoressis, and Cancello. Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French-Italian graphic designer who made an experimental star-studdedc face in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at Shenkar Collage in Israel, who says he is from Italy on his Behance site. Flickr page. Creator of the Hebrew face Urbanica (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lecco, Italy. In 2010, he designed Nervo Ottico 1, a (free) sans face that was inspired by Herb Lubalin's Avant Garde. It was part of Yuri's type design course project at Politecnico di Milano, done under the guidance of Andrea Braccaloni. Nervo Ottico 2 was made by co-sdtudent Roberta Donatini. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1986, Zeina graduated in 2008 from NDU (Notre Dame University Lebanon). Presently she is a print and media designer in Florence, Italy. Creator of the Arabic simulation face Gibran (2012), which was created for Lebanese author Gibran Khalil. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zetafonts is a font foundry created by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Debora Manetti. Almost all of these fonts were created as part of the design process for logos and printed materials. Many were created for the experimental magazine ego[n]. Foundry in Florence, Italy, although the Behance page places them in the United States. [z]fonts is the font development section of Studio Kmzero, a Florence (Italy) based Design and Communication Agency. Studio Kmzero is an Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti, and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini. Also called ZeroFont. Francesco Canovaro and Adolfo Monti are the designers of the simple bold sans face Arista (2007). They also made the basic sans faces Cibreo, zProzak-Bold, zProzak and zProzakLight in 2006, and Sugo in 2007. We also find Antipasto (2007, clean elegant sans, by Matteo Di Iorio), Arsenale White and ArsenaleBlue (2009, children's hands, done by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Francesco Canovaro and Jonathan Calugi), Bistecca (2005, a bellissima extra-condensed serif font created for ego[n] 5 and for the cover of ego[n] 4), Braciola (2006; monospaced and octagonal, with stencil styles added), Bubblebody, Byron (2006, handwriting), Delizioso (2008, art deco), Docporn (comic book style), Duepuntezero, Handvetica (2005, arched), Happyfruhzero, Modulo3 (2008, an artsy beauty), New Romantic (curly grunge), Prozak, Sala de Fiestas (2005-2006), Senzacuore, Square80 (2009), Sugo, Taller Evolution (2009, geometric sans), Taller, Tallest Tallest (2009, ultra-condensed), Targa Monospace (inspired by license plate lettering), Targa (2002), TargaMS (2002), TargaMSHand (2002), Tutor (2006, rectangular, pixelish---what I call a piano key font), Toller (2009, ultra-condensed), Filetto (2009, a sans modeled after DIN 1451 done with Francisco Canovaro and Katiuscia Mari). Dafont link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Italian designer, 1920-1995, who designed most of his faces at Nebiolo in Turin. Until 1975, he made about 30 families at Nebiolo, and after 1975, he produced about 70 further families of fonts. With weights included, he created about 300 fonts. 
Late 15-th century Venetian scholar and printer, b. 1449, Bassiano, d. 1515, Venice. He founded the Aldine Press in 1495. 
Freelance Italian graphic designer in Rome (b. near Piacenza, 1976) who graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Design in 2004 from 
Italian designer and teacher (b. Turin, 1893, d. Turin, 1959), who spent most of his life designing type at Nebiolo, where he was also art director. He headed Studio Artistico della Nebiolo from 1936-1952. 
Web designer based in Rome. Creator of 
Milan, Italy-based graphic and type designer. His ultra-black 
Paolo Vannucci (Alphabet&Type, b. 1969, Punta Marina Terme) created the curly handwritten Halloween faces 
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Graduate in Communication Design from Politecnico di Milano. 
Andrea Malpede (Nocive Laboratory, Naples, Italy) created the ornamental alphabet called 
Roman creator of the information design / rolodex / horizontal (almost) stencil 
In the late 1400s, blackletter was replaced by a type style that mimicked handwriting. It was of uniform thickness, and thus appeared quite dark on paper. The humanist writing of Italian scholars of the Renaissance served as a model for what is now known as the Antiqua style. 
Padova-based 
Italian designer from Modena (b. 1980) who made Clara (2007, sans). 
Antonio Cerri (b. 1972, Catania, Italy) freelances in web, graphic and motion design. He created some typefaces in 2010, such as the futuristic CRR NTN (+
Italian designer of the 
Italian type designer, born in 1942 or 1943. Emigrated to the USA. His first design job was at Bonder&Carnase. In 1969, he joined Lubalin Smith Carnase Inc. He ran his own studio, Tony DiSpigna Inc. (since 1973). He teaches typography at the Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts and the New York Institute of Technology. 
Studio in Turin, Italy. 
Dave Farey's great essay on the history and implementations of Bodoni. All Bodoni faces published today have genetic material from Giambattista Bodoni's original. Below are various implementations: 
This is a multi-year project at Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino (Italy) which has workshops and ateliers, and occasionally goes into type design. The type design activities, such as the free open source type family 
Padova-based graphic designer, teacher of advertising art at the Istituto Statale d'Arte Michele Fanoli in Cittadella Padova, Italy. Organiser of the international calligraphy award Belle Lettere (1997). The resulting publication Belle Lettere won the Fedrigoni Prize for graphic excellence. At ATypI in Rome in 2002, he 
In 2012, Cecilia Negri and Virginia Nardelli, both located in Milan, took the Fiat logo, and set out to design a full (condensed, octagonal) alphabet by extrapolation, called the 
During his studies in Milan, Chiara Quaggia created the signage typeface 
American graphic designer from Baltimore, MD, who studied in SVA;'s Masters program in Rome in 2012. Roman signage inspired her in the creation of four alphabets in 2012: 
Andrea Braccaloni, James Clough, Piero De Macchi, Giangiorgio Fuga and Luciano Perondi, together the "who is who" in type design in Italy today, offer a high level type design course from September 15 until October 10, 2008, at Poli.design, Consorzio del Politecnico di Milano. A similar course was organized there in 2007 as well. [
Founder of Design Lab SRL, Milan, Italy. Partner in the Milan-based 
Digital artist from Milan who graduated from Politecnico in Milan. She created a branding and wayfinding type family for the city of Genova in 2010. This includes 
Born in 1977, Emilie Rollandin lives in Val d'Aosta, Italy. She created the sketched typeface 
Roman designer at FontStruct in 2008 of Mango (ultra fat, rounded), 
Italian designer of the fat display face Prendotempo (2007). He has addresses in Ravenna asnd Rotterdam. He codesigned 
Italian designer (b. Prato, near Florence, 1959) of 
During her studies at Politecnico di Milano, Ester Valorio designed the sketched typeface 
Institute in Benalmadena, Spain (was: Santa Severa), where one can take 4-week courses at 1450 Euros a shot on the Etruscan alphabet, Trajan, Cuadrata and Rustic Roman Capital letters, and related subjects. They also organize lettering tours in Italy and guided tours in various musea. The teachers are Alberto Di Santo (Professor of the visual communication, Tor Vergata University, Rome; Professor of Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di design, Rome; Professor of editorial design, La Sapienza University, Rome; Professor of Typography, C.F.P. Sinalunga, Siena) and 
Foundry in Rome run by 
Milan-based creator of the condensed retro face 
Designer in Barcelona who was born in 1982 in Pistoia, Italy. 
Flanker, or Studio Di Lena, is the foundry of Italian type designer Leonardo Di Lena (b. 1975, Rome). Initially, it offered fresh free designs of classics. In 2012, it went commercial. Their fonts, made beteen 1998 and 2009: 
Como-based student at Politecnico di Milano. During the course of Professors Iliprandi and Pavesi in 2011, she designed an 
Italian designer of 
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Roman designer of the modular grid-based face 
Designer (b. Riva Ligure 1875-d. Torino 1953) at Monotype in 1927 with Eduardo Cotti of 
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Italian illustrator and designer from Torino (b. 1970) who made Antitled, a sans serif family at 
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Italian typographer and type designer, b. Saluzzo (1740), d. Parma (1813). He was the director of the Stamperia Reale in Parma. Court typographer of the Spanish king, Charles III, in 1782. In 1788, he published his masterpiece, the 
Graphic and 
An Italian type foundry by Milan-based type designer Giangiorgio Fuga, ATypI member, teacher of typography at the Istituto Europeo of Milan, Politecnico of Milan, Italy and Unisinos of Porto Alegre, Brasil. His great 
Graphic designer and photographer in Rome. She created the display typeface 
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Or Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. Calligrapher and writing master, born in Venice, 1468-1527. Author of 
Giovanni Battista Braccelli (ca. 1600, d. before 1650) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Baroque period, who was active in Firenze. He is best known for his book of prints, Bizzarie di Varie Figure [a variety of human shapes], published in 1624 in Livorno, and dedicated to Don Pietro Medici. It contains wonderful futuristic engravings. Wikipedia: In this book, he engraves baroque experiments recalling Arcimboldo, engaging in a rarified set of conceits. Some of the figures are composed of boxes or raquets or curlicues. He published a second collection of prints entitled Figure Con Instrumenti Musicali E Boscarecci. Finally, he created 
Bologna, Italy-based creator (b. Como) of the 
Italian calligrapher and type designer who lives in Austria. Giovanni de Faccio (b. San Donà di Piave, Venezia, 1966) and Lui Karner run the Austrian foundry DF Type (or: Fischbachpresse). They made the very classy text family called 
Naples-based designer, b. 1981. 
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Very talented Pistoia, Italy-based designer (b. 1982). 
During his graphic design studies in Florence, Italy, Harendra Kapur designed the ultra-condensed typeface 
Graduate in Communication Design from Politecnico of Milan. For her studies, she created a system of 
Graphic designer in Milan. She created a beautifully delicate flared semi-serifed face, 
Graphic designer in Rome who made the roman caps typeface 
Italian Institute with type classes led by Luciano Perondi. Aka Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. In 2008, they made the typewriter face Lekton (free), about which they write: The typeface has been designed at Isia Urbino by the students Luna Castroni, Stefano Faoro, Emilio Macchia, Elena Papassissa, Michela Povoleri, Tobias Seemiller, and the teacher Luciano Perondi (aka galacticus ineffabilis). Lekton is inspired by some of the typefaces used on the Olivetti typewriters. We thank Gianmaria Capello for his precious support. This typeface has been designed in 8 hours. 
James Clough (b. 1947, London) studied typographic design at the London College of Printing. For more than thirty years he has lived and worked in Milan as typographer, designer and calligrapher and since 1990 also as a teacher of the theory and history of typography and visual communication at various institutions including the Milan Polytechnic University (since 2002) and the ISIA of Urbino. He lectures on many aspects of calligraphy, type design and the history of typography in Italy, Britain and Switzerland. Recent essays of his research for English and Italian publications include a study of the various editions of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (first printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499), types used by the earliest printers in Milan and Venice, the 20th century revivals of Bodoni's types and a study of historical and contemporary script types. In 2005 he curated the Mondovì Museum of Printing. He is on the scientific board of 
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Julia is Valerio Di Lucente (Italy), Erwan Lhuissier (France) and Hugo Timm (Brazil). They met at the Royal College of Art in London having come from different professional backgrounds in editorial design, web and art direction. The studio was founded in 2008 upon their graduation. Together, they on books, typefaces, posters, websites, identities and exhibition design. They teach as visiting lecturers at Kingston University. Typefaces: 
Simone Giorgio (K-Projects, Varese, Italy; b.1985) is a 
Full e-text of the first book on writing, La Operina (Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, 1522), a 32-page book about Arrighi's calligraphic lettering. Comments by G. Briem. Briem writes: The author was a copyist, papal scribe, publisher and type designer. He called himself Ludovico Vicentino, and wrote the name eight times into his short text. Yet we know him as Arrighi, a name that appears nowhere in the book. Operina shows great handwriting on every page. It is more than a set of model sheets, however. It describes Arrighi's underlying forms and two basic entry movements. It covers the spacing of lines, words and letters. It deals with slant and joins. Operina is a slim volume of 32 pages. It teaches italic handwriting and is still essential reading. Each page was printed from a separate woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, who is best known as a master of chiaroscuro engraving. 
LCD Graphics has an impossible page. It is a company founded in 1982 by 
Leftloft is a visual communications studio in Milan, founded in 1997 by graphic designer Andrea Braccaloni (b. Bologna, 1973), Francesco Cavalli, Bruno Genovese and David Pasquali. The studio is mainly engaged in corporate identity, and now also has an office in New York. Andrea Braccaloni teaches visual communication at the III Faculty of Architecture/Design at the Politecnico di Milano. At 
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This jewel of a book was published in 1550 by Antonio Blado asolano in Rome. It is now available on the web and contains of complete alphabets, from chancery scripts, to blackletter and roman. There are also Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Syrian, Arabic and other alphabets. 
Graphic designer in Milan. During a 5-week type design course at Politecnico di Milano, he created the extraordinary mid-20th century display faces 
Celebrated Milan-based calligrapher, letterer and illustrator. Examples of his lettering include 
Milan-based graphic designer. Creator of 
Rome-based creator of 
Italian art cooperative in Omegna, where one can download the nice handprinted Ave Giulio (2009). Other fonts viewable via 
Influential Italian printer, writing master and calligrapher, b. ca. 1475-1480, d. 1527, aka Ludovico Vicentino (degli Arrighi), or Ludovico il Vicentino. Around 1510 he was a bookseller in Rome. He was employed as a scribe at the Apostolic Chancery in 1515. Author in 
Graphic designer in Milan who made the flare-serifed heavy all caps typeface 
Italian visual artist based in Amsterdam and Berlin. In 2005 he graduated with a bachelor's degree in visual communication from ISIA (Florence, Italy) and Bauhaus University (Weimar, Germany). He continued his studies at the Sandberg institute of the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, where he obtained a Master's degree. 
Italian graphic designer. Creator of the spurred typeface 
Martina Zanini lives in Lodi, Italy. While studying in 2010-2011 with James Clough at the Politecnico di Milano, she created the 
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Catanzaro-based Italian designer (b. 1985) of 
Senior art director in Milan. Designer of the 
Graduate of the 
Visual designer in Milano, who created the (virtual) 
Graphic design and fashion outfit in Verona, Italy. 
Born in Milan in 1965, Matteo Federico Bologna emigrated to the United States, where he founded Mucca Design in 1999, a company involved 
Established in 2005, Muccatypo's is a group of three type designers that form a subgroup of Mucca Design in New York: 
The main 
MyFonts hit list for Trajan faces, i.e., roman faces as modeled after the inscriptions found on the Trajan column in Rome. See also 
Creators of the free dingbat face 
In 1878, Giovanni Nebiolo bought a foundry from Giacomo Narizzano. In 1889, the Levi brothers joied this venture to form Nebiolo&Co. After 1899, several other foundries were absorbed by Nebiolo, and for some time, the company was called Società Augusta, but it reverted to Nebiolo&Co in 1917. Based in Turin, type design started in the 1930s, first under the direction of painter Giulio da Milano, then from 1936 under Alessandro Butti, and from 1952 under the guidance of Aldo Novarese. It was Italy's premier foundry of the 20th century. It closed its typography department in 1975, and went bankrupt in 1978, when Fiat took over. In 1990, the foundry was taken over by Fruttiger AG in Münchenstein. Their most famous font families include Eurostile (1962), Microgramma (1952), Torino (1908) and Stop (1971). Others worth mentioning are Neondi (1935, da Milano), Resolut (1937, Brünnel), 
Designer and artist, b. Milan, 1926, d. Caracas, 2001. From MyFonts: Several Venezuelan generations had acquired very strong design, typographic and drawing knowledge due to the historical and artistic heritage left by Master Nedo Mion Ferrario. He spent big part of his life teaching and working on design. His passion for impossible figures and geometric optic illusions were the most valuable characteristics of his work. Most of his knowledge was obtained from his father, Emilio Mion Vianello, who dedicated his life to wood carve, a high profile job those day in Italy. Emilio studied in the Brera Academy in Milan and Nedo studied in the Commercial and Technical Institute of Milan between 1936 and 1940, and then in the Fine Arts Academy in the same city. At the end of the Second Word War, both of them decided to leave Italy due to the political situation in those days. Encouraged by the immigration Venezuelan politics they arrived in Caracas in 1950. 
Nicola Serradimigni (b. 1972, Bologna) lives and works in Modena, Italy. Creator of 
French printer and artist born in Sommevoire, France in 1420. He worked mostly in Venice as a printer, type designer, punch cutter, and engraver from 1468 until his death in Venice in 1480. In 1475 he was made a papal count by Pope Sixtus IV. He produces his first roman type in Cicero, Epistolae ad Brutum (1468), which is described as perfect and unequaled. A Greek typeface which is used for quotations was made in 1471. In 1473, he creates a blackletter typeface which he uses in books on medicine and history. In 1475, he founds his first book trading company, Nicolaus Jenson sociique, whose partners include the Frankfurt businessmen Peter Ugelheimer and Johann Rauchfass. In 1480, his second book trading company is launched under the name Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et socii. 
Italian studio based in Naples. It created 
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Fonts designed by talented Swedish designer Franko Luin (born in Trieste, Italy in 1941, to Slovenian parents). Luin immigrated to Sweden in 1961. After studying at the Grafiska Institutet during the 1960s, Franko Luin spent two decades as a print designer for Ericsson before becoming independent. In the 1990s he was involved in multimedia and typeface design. In 1996, he founded his own typographic studio, Omnibus Typografi. At some point, he led a course in Web Typography at the Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm. Franko Luin passed away on September 15, 2005, in Tyresö, Sweden. 
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French graphic designer who lives in Perugia, Italy. I would call him an experimental typographer. He likes experimenting, for example, with modular typeforms, as is apparent from his typefaces called 
Freelance graphic designer. Stones inspired Pierfrancesco Annicchiarico (Grottaglie, Italy) to design the experimental typeface Secco (2009). The Cà brùtta building by Giovanni Muzio in Milan got him to design 
Italian type designer born in Turin in 1937. Designer at Nebiolo from 1956-1959. Freelancer and writer since 1971 at his own De Macchi graphic design studio. Most of his typefaces were commissioned by corporations. In 1992 he set up the calligraphic association Dal Segno alla Scrittura. His typefaces: 
Italian classical scholar, who lived from 1470 (b. Venice) until 1547 (d. Rome). He was well-connected and knew the famous Medicis. Above all, he had an affair with Lucrezia Borgia. He influenced the development of the Italian language and established the madrigal as the most important secular musical form of the 16th century. He was made cardinal in 1539. Monotype gave his name to their typeface Bembo of 1929. The design is based on type cut by Francesco Griffo for the Aldine Press of Aldus Manutius, and first used in Bembo's work De Aetna (1495-1496). Allan Haley writes: In February 1496, Aldus [Manutius] published a rather insignificant essay by the Italian scholar Pietro Bembo. The type used for the text became instantly popular. So famous did it become that it influenced typeface design for generations. Posterity has come to regard the Bembo type as Aldus's and Griffo's masterpiece. Pietro Bembo himself had no connection to or influence on the typeface that carried his name. [
While studying at Milan Polytechnic, Pimpa Gerroc created the rounded sans typeface family 
Fabian Pfeifhofer is an Italian/Tirolian designer, b. 1984. Creator of Ugloosy (2007, grunge), Loosydings Extended (2008), 
Italian designer of 
It is well-known that a Didot or Bodoni without serifs turns into a high-contrast sans comparable to Peignot. I call these Peignotian typefaces. A real beauty was created in this manner by Italian designer Raffaella Isidori in 2011 entitled 
Artist from Florence, 1875-1941. Designer at Nebiolo for most of his life. He made these typefaces: 
Giuseppe Salerno (aka 
Italian graduate from the type design program at the 
Turin-based Italian designer of Modena (2009, a modular experimental face) and 
Designer from Ragalna, Italy, b. 1976. Creator of the comics book font 
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Great Italian illustrator in Firenze. 
Italian creator of the round geometric sans face 
London-based graphic designer. His fonts 
Creative designer from Milan, who co-founded 
Graphic designer in Turin, Italy. 
Italian graphic design group headed by 
Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, 
Studio Polpo was founded in 2012 by Matteo Brogi and Leonardo Maltese in Rome. Its typefaces include 
Graphic design and art direction studio run by Enrico Bonafede in Rome. DJ Andrea Esu created the monoline stencil face VT Esulation (2009). [
London-based designer who is originally from Italy. 
Tommaso Bovo (Florence, Italy) created 
Located in Canegrate, Italy, TrueBlue is the foundry of 
Italian branding company which in 2008 created the logotype 
16th century Franciscan scribe and calligrapher, known for his 1554 writing manual Opera di Frate Vespasiano Amphiareo da Ferrara ... nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti de lettere (Venice, 1554), the first place where one can find a Bastarda. Typefaces based on 
(Italian?) designer of the dingbat font 
