Kitsch Extralight
Kitsch Extralight Italic
Kitsch Light
Kitsch Light Italic
Kitsch Regular
Kitsch Italic
Kitsch Medium
Kitsch Medium Italic
Kitsch Semibold
Kitsch Semibold Italic
Kitsch Bold
Kitsch Bold Italic
Kitsch Extrabold
Kitsch Extrabold Italic
Kitsch Black
Kitsch Black Italic
Kitsch Text Extralight
Kitsch Text Extralight Italic
Kitsch Text Light
Kitsch Text Light Italic
Kitsch Text Book
Kitsch Text Book Italic
Kitsch Text Regular
Kitsch Text Italic
Kitsch Text Medium
Kitsch Text Medium Italic
Kitsch Text Bold
Kitsch Text Bold Italic
Kitsch Text Extrabold
Kitsch Text Extrabold Italic
Kitsch Text Black
Kitsch Text Black Italic
Designed by Francesco Canovaro with help from Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini, Kitsch is a typeface happily living at the crossroads between classical latin and medieval gothic letterforms. But, rather than referencing historical models like the italian Rotunda or the french Bastarda scripts, Kitsch tries to renew both its inspirations, finding a contemporary vibe in the dynamic texture of the calligraphic broad-nib pen applied to the proportions of the classical roman skeleton. The resulting high contrast and spiky details make Kitsch excel in display uses, while a fine-tuned text version manages to keep at small sizes the dynamic expressivity of the design without sacrificing legibility. Both variants are designed in a wide range of weights (from the almost monolinear thin to the dense black), and are fully equipped with a extended character sets covering over two hundred languages that use latin, cyrillic and greek alphabets.
Special care has been put in designing Kitsch italic letterforms, with the broad-nib movements referencing classical italian letterforms to add even more shades to your typographic palette. The resulting alternate letter shapes have also been included in the roman weights as Stylistic Alternates - part to the wide range of Open Type features (Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Positional Numerals, Small Caps and Case Sensitive Forms) provided with all the 32 weights of Kitsch.
Born for editorial and branding use, Kitsch is fashionable but solid, self-confident enough to look classic while ironic enough to be contemporary.
Features
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fl fiStandard Ligatures
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{¿Ao?}Case-Sensitive Forms
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ABCDESmall Capitals From Capitals
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ch ckDiscretionary Ligatures
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agStylistic Alternates
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AbagoSmall Capitals
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AmpqStylistic Set 2
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WwStylistic Set 4
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QStylistic Set 5
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12/23Fractions
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1a 3thOrdinals
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12360Oldstyle Figures
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1234Tabular Figures
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H123Alternate Annotation Forms
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H123Denominators
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H123Subscript
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H123Superscript
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H123Scientific Inferiors
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H123Numerators
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120Slashed Zero
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FLMQTstylistic uppercase alternates
European languages
The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.