Drawing on brutalist design principles and a keen sense of balance, Dialogue tries to reinvent the traditional roman Oldstyle letterforms with a digital language that is is at once elegant and rugged, with crisp, sharp edges and smooth curves. 

Florentia is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro, designed developing his Beatrix Family design. Florentia takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model of Beatrix but developes the influences derived from the stone carvings in Florence Santa Croce Cathedral into a more contemporary overall design, featuring lower X-height and an extended character set that covers over fourty languages using the [...] Florentia is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro, designed developing his Beatrix Family design. Florentia takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model of Beatrix but developes the influences derived from the stone carvings in Florence Santa Croce Cathedral into a more contemporary overall design, featuring lower X-height and an extended character set that covers over fourty languages using the latin alphabet, as well as Greek and Russian Cyrillic.

Mario De Libero designed Swanstone while investigating XIX Century Old Style typefaces. Designs like Theophile Beaudoire’s Romana (1860) or Miller & Richard’s Modernized Old Style, that re-imagined the classical “Venetian” letterforms adding flared serifs and early Art Nouveau influences. In Italy, one of these fonts was Raffaello Bertieri’s Raffaello, which De Libero used as the starting point of his research in a contemporary [...] Mario De Libero designed Swanstone while investigating XIX Century Old Style typefaces. Designs like Theophile Beaudoire’s Romana (1860) or Miller & Richard’s Modernized Old Style, that re-imagined the classical “Venetian” letterforms adding flared serifs and early Art Nouveau influences. In Italy, one of these fonts was Raffaello Bertieri’s Raffaello, which De Libero used as the starting point of his research in a contemporary retelling of these exuberant and sexily unsettling letterforms. Developed as a single weight to be released in our Zetafonts Singularity line, Swanstone will be available for a limited time as a gift to all subscribers of Zetafonts Type Club. Don’t forget checking our next newsletters!