Riccardo De Franceschi

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Riccardo De Franceschi Italian graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, who lives and works in Piedmont and Lombardy in Northern Italy, and publishes typefaces at Sorkin Type. His typefaces: His graduation project included the design of Ginnasio: The Ginnasio family is designed to set bilingual vocabularies, namely polytonic Greek English and Latin English. These dictionaries are used in secondary schools to translate texts from classical Greece and Rome into the student's own language. A Thai font is added, intended to set bilingual vocabularies as well. Ginnasio won First Prize at Granshan 2010 for Greek types. Gravitas One (2011, Sorkin Type, and Google Font Directory). He writes: Gravitas One is modeled on the "UK fat face" which is a kind of very heavy advertising type created during the industrial revolution in England. The letter forms are characterized by an attention getting and strong contrast between the very heavy vertical shapes and the thin horizontal ones. The contrast of the design means that it will be most useful when set from medium to large sizes. Still at Sorkin Type, he created the wedge-serif black typeface Goblin One (2011): Goblin One was inspired by a hand painted sign above a pub in the town of Reading (UK). Goblin One is a somewhat wide medium contrast design with a large x-height. Asset One (2011, Sorkin Type) was inspired by the engraved letters found on United States dollar bills. Contrail One (2011, Sorkin Type; free at Google Font Directory), it is based on handmade sans letters seen on UK posters. Wellfleet (2012, Google Web Fonts and Sorkin Type) is a versatile low-contrast slab serif text typeface with a a bouncy and upbeat feeling. It was inspired by German poster lettering. Emblema One (2012, Google Web Fonts). An oblique fat trendy stencil typeface for posters. Sonsie One (2012, Google Web Fonts). Sonsie One is a large x-height signage face. Vampiro One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a near-monoline fat angular script typeface . Valnera (2010-2019, CAST). iValnera is a low-contrast humanist serif typeface of a distinctly angular design. Its headline style is called Valnera Monster, and there is also a Random style with randomly rotated glyphs. Riccardo writes: Valnera evokes the calligraphic appeal of Oldrich Menhart's typefaces. It also expresses in a very contemporary way that kind of 1970s photocomposition feeling typical of two iconic faces, Cartier (1967) and ITC Mendoza (1991). Monte Stella (2020, at Dalton Maag): a celebration of Milan's informal aesthetics and accidental design of the 1950s to 1970s. Has a variable font option. Google Plus link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Riccardo De Franceschi MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Thai fonts ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ The Spanish type scene ⦿ Type design in Catalunya ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿