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Sebastiano Serlio

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. Author of On Antiquities (1540).

There are a few roman capital fonts in the digital age. These include Serlio (1990, Linotype), Sentian (Novel Fonts) and Opti Serlio (Castcraft).

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file name: Sebastian Serlio Italian Renaissance Capitals1


file name: Sebastian Serlio Italian Renaissance Capitals2


file name: Italian Renaissance Roman Capitals by Serlio 16th Century a


file name: Italian Renaissance Roman Capitals by Serlio 16th Century b


file name: Linotype Serlio L T Std 1990


file name: A R Ross adaptation of Sebastian Serlio 1


file name: A R Ross adaptation of Sebastian Serlio 2







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