Designers: Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli, Mario De LiberoArsenica is a serif typeface developed by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts, and developed by a style team including Mario De Libero, Andrea Tartarelli and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.
The design of Arsenica takes its inspiration from Italian poster style at the beginning of the century, a time where typography, lettering and illustration where closely interwoven. Dawning nationalist motions, instead of utilizing the modernist language, pushed on standard Old Style letterforms typically imbued with Art Nouveau and Deco perceptiveness. Artists like Giorgio Muggiani not just detailed posters for Cinzano, Pirelli and Rinascente, but also provided logo style for newspapers, like 'Il Popolo d'Italia'.
Starting from this mix of diverse influences, Canovaro first developed the Arsenica Antiqua family, developed as display typeface that keeps the original Old Design low-contrast, large percentages and quirky stylistic inventions. These where then distilled in a high contrast, Arsenica Display family, expanding the weight variety to include both poster, ultra-bold weights and lighter weights that offer the style an unique calligraphic flavour. Bringing the letterforms into contemporary taste suggested likewise developing alternate letterforms that were included in the Arsenica Alternate family, that drops the art nouveau information in favour of a more controlled modern-day serif visual. Lastly, Arsenica Text was established by expanding the design space in the optical size axis, creating a low contrast, strongly understandable old style typeface family, with a reduced weight set, oriented for long body copy typesetting.
The last result is a superfamily of 41 weights, covering the style area with an expanded charset of over 900 glyphs, with complete protection of over 200 languages using latin and Cyrillic alphabets. All the weights of Arsenica come with a full set of open type features permitting to explore its vintage-inspired visual creations thanks to stylistic sets, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates and positional numbers. 2 variable typefaces are included in the full family, enabling you to check out the design space and exactly control not only the weight however also the optical size style variations.
- Suggested uses: best for sophisticated contemporary branding and logo design, interesting editorial design, meaningful packaging and many other projects.
- 43 styles: 7 weights + 7 italics, 4 various styles + 2 variable fonts.
- 942 glyphs in each weight.
- Helpful OpenType functions: Gain access to All Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Case-Sensitive Types, Glyph Structure/ Decomposition, Discretionary Ligatures, Kerning, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark Positioning, Mark to Mark Positioning, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set 1, Stylistic Set 2, Stylistic Set 3, Stylistic Set 4, Stylistic Set 5, Stylistic Set 6, Stylistic Set 7, Stylistic Set 8, Stylistic Set 9, Slashed Zero.
- 216 languages supported ( extended Latin and Cyrillic alphabets): English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Javanese (Latin), Turkish, Italian, Polish, Afaan Oromo, Azeri, Tagalog, Sundanese (Latin), Filipino, Moldovan, Romanian, Indonesian, Dutch, Cebuano, Igbo, Malay, Uzbek (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Swahili, Hungarian, Czech, Haitian Creole, Hiligaynon, Afrikaans, Somali, Zulu, Serbian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Shona, Quechua, Albanian, Catalan, Chichewa, Ilocano, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Neapolitan, Xhosa, Tshiluba, Slovak, Danish, Gikuyu, Finnish, Norwegian, Sicilian, Sotho (Southern), Kirundi, Tswana, Sotho (Northern), Belarusian (Latin), Turkmen (Latin), Bemba, Lombard, Lithuanian, Tsonga, Wolof, Jamaican, Dholuo, Galician, Ganda, Low Saxon, Waray-Waray, Makhuwa, Bikol, Kapampangan (Latin), Aymara, Zarma, Ndebele, Slovenian, Tumbuka, Venetian, Genoese, Piedmontese, Swazi, Zazaki, Latvian, Nahuatl, Silesian, Bashkir (Latin), Sardinian, Estonian, Afar, Cape Verdean Creole, Maasai, Occitan, Tetum, Oshiwambo, Basque, Welsh, Chavacano, Dawan, Montenegrin, Walloon, Asturian, Kaqchikel, Ossetian (Latin), Zapotec, Frisian, Guadeloupean Creole, Q'eqchi', Karakalpak (Latin), Crimean Tatar (Latin), Sango, Luxembourgish, Samoan, Maltese, Tzotzil, Fijian, Friulian, Icelandic, Sranan, Wayuu, Papiamento, Aromanian, Corsican, Breton, Amis, Gagauz (Latin), Māori, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Alsatian, Atayal, Kiribati, Seychellois Creole, Võro, Tahitian, Scottish Gaelic, Chamorro, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Kashubian, Faroese, Rarotongan, Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Karelian (Latin), Romansh, Chickasaw, Arvanitic (Latin), Nagamese Creole, Saramaccan, Ladin, Palauan, Sami (Northern Sami), Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Drehu, Wallisian, Aragonese, Mirandese, Tuvaluan, Xavante, Zuni, Montagnais, Hawaiian, Marquesan, Niuean, Yapese, Vepsian, Bislama, Hopi, Megleno-Romanian, Creek, Aranese, Rotokas, Tokelauan, Mohawk, Onĕipŏt, Warlpiri, Cimbrian, Sami (Lule Sami), Jèrriais, Arrernte, Murrinh-Patha, Kala Lagaw Ya, Cofán, Gwich' in, Seri, Sami (Southern Sami), Istro-Romanian, Wik-Mungkan, Anuta, Cornish, Sami (Inari Sami), Yindjibarndi, Noongar, Hotcąk (Latin), Meriam Mir, Manx, Shawnee, Gooniyandi, Ido, Wiradjuri, Hän, Ngiyambaa, Delaware, Potawatomi, Abenaki, Esperanto, Folkspraak, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Occidental, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Slovio (Latin), Volapük.
Font Family:
· Arsenica Thin
· Arsenica Thin Italic
· Arsenica Light
· Arsenica Light Italic
· Arsenica Regular
· Arsenica Italic
· Arsenica Medium
· Arsenica Medium Italic
· Arsenica Demibold
· Arsenica Demibold Italic
· Arsenica Bold
· Arsenica Bold Italic
· Arsenica Extrabold
· Arsenica Extrabold Italic
· Arsenica Alternate Thin
· Arsenica Alternate Light
· Arsenica Alternate Regular
· Arsenica Alternate Medium
· Arsenica Alternate Demibold
· Arsenica Alternate Bold
· Arsenica Alternate Extrabold
· Arsenica Antiqua Thin
· Arsenica Antiqua Thin Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Light
· Arsenica Antiqua Light Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Regular
· Arsenica Antiqua Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Medium
· Arsenica Antiqua Medium Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Demibold
· Arsenica Antiqua Demibold Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Bold
· Arsenica Antiqua Bold Italic
· Arsenica Antiqua Extrabold
· Arsenica Antiqua Extrabold Italic
· Arsenica Text Light
· Arsenica Text Light Italic
· Arsenica Text Regular
· Arsenica Regular Italic
· Arsenica Text Bold
· Arsenica Text Bold Italic
· Arsenica Variable
· Arsenica Variable Italic
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