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If you love typography, inspiration can come from unexpected sources - even from the humble, functional letterforms on license plates of italian cars.
MONOSPACED
abcdefghij
klmnopqrst
uvwxyz !&?
1234567890
PROPORTIONAL
abcdefghij
klmnopqrst
uvwxyz !&?
1234567890
‟A POSTMODERN APPROPRIATION OF UTILITARIAN DESIGN„
OUR TYPE OF WORLD
↖Poliamorous Monospace↑ ←Polymath Monogamous↗ ↙Politonic Monomaniac→ ↓Proportional Monotonic↘
Targa Pro Mono Thin
Targa Pro Mono Thin Italic
Targa Pro Mono Light
Targa Pro Mono Light Italic
Targa Pro Mono Regular
Targa Pro Mono Italic
Targa Pro Mono Bold
Targa Pro Mono Bold Italic
Targa Pro Mono Extrabold
Targa Pro Mono Extrabold Italic
Targa Pro Thin
Targa Pro Thin Italic
Targa Pro Light
Targa Pro Light Italic
Targa Pro Regular
Targa Pro Italic
Targa Pro Bold
Targa Pro Bold Italic
Targa Pro Extrabold
Targa Pro Extrabold Italic
Targa Pro Stencil
Targa Pro Hand
For many years license plates in Italy have been using a quite peculiar sans serif monospace typeface with slightly rounded corners and a geometric, condensed skeleton. These letterforms have been used by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini as an inspiration for Targa, published as the first-ever Zetafonts typeface in 2003. Almost twenty years later, Francesco Canovaro has brought the project under scrutiny for a complete redesign, keeping its inventions, solving its issues, and making it into a versatile multi-weight typeface.
The original type family has been developed in two subfamilies: Targa Pro Mono (which keeps the original monospace widths) and Targa Pro Roman (with proportional widths), both in five weights plus italics. The original family also included the handmade version Targa Hand which has been paired with a new Targa Pro Stencil to allow for more versatility and choice for display use. All weights of Targa Pro feature an extended latin character set covering over 200 languages, as well as a full set of Open Type features including positional numbers, alternates and stylistic sets.
Halfway between postmodern appropriation of utilitarian design and rationalist design, Targa Pro sits comfortably at the crossroads between artificial nostalgia and modernist functionality, ready to surprise the user with its versatility and quirky italian flavor.
Features
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SækjaStylistic Set 1
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OggiStylistic Set 2
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PerlyStylistic Set 3
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LallyStylistic Set 4
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CyrusStylistic Set 5
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1/2 1/3Fractions
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1a2oOrdinals
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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
Variable Typefaces
Targa Pro Variable
VARIABLE FONTS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE WITH THE FULL FAMILY PACKAGE, MAY NOT WORK WITH ALL THE SOFTWARE
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.
