Leo Colalillo

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Leo Colalillo Milan, Italy-based type designer who graduated from IED in 2007 and attended the Master of Type Design program at Politecnico di Milano. He has been working in the world of visual communication since then for clients such as Chianti Classico, Moretti, Amnesty International and UAAR. In 2019, he started teaching at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) in Rome. His early typefaces include the hand-printed Peake, Grill Trump (2012: a typeface derived from Gill Sans together with Valentina Aufiero, Francesca Sperti, Natale Ventre and Alejandra Sepulveda at Politecnico di Milano), BetaQin, and the heavy angular display typeface Grosser (2013), which was earlier called Größe (2012). This octagonal typeface covers Greek and is loaded with opentype features. In 2018, he designed the ultra-condensed blackletter typeface Guglia. In 2020, he released the all caps anthroposophic / lapidary typeface Caudine. It was inspired by the Oscan alphabet used by the Samnites, an pre-roman Italic culture from south-central Italy. Home page.	EXTERNAL LINKS Leo Colalillo [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Italy ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Anthroposophy and type design ⦿ Lapidary typefaces ⦿ Old Italic Fonts ⦿