Beatrix Antiqua is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro. Beatrix Antiqua is part of the Beatrix Household that takes its inspiration from the traditional Roman significant capital model: its capitals are straight derived from the stone carvings in Florence Santa Croce Cathedral - where the serifs are often removed while keeping the variable width strokes.
So, even if it's basically a sans-serif, Beatrix keeps a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif - in the very same vein as Herman Zapf timeless Optima typeface. In the lowercase style, Beatrix referrals early humanist typefaces, keeping small calligraphic details (as the prolongation of the e nose) that are especially noticeable in the italics. It includes a prolonged character set that covers over forty languages using the Latin alphabet, in addition to Greek and Russian Cyrillic.
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