In creating the Calvino typeface household Andrea Tartarelli set himself the difficulty to follow the concepts expressed by the Italian author Italo Calvino in his masterpiece 6 memos for the next millenium. Exactitude and presence are translated typographically through the reference to sixteen century garalde typography and its controlled, extremely understandable letterforms. To balance this formal rigour, lightness and speed were added by letting the design be influenced by the calligraphic hand, following the lesson of Gudrun Zapf. The idea of multiplicity was kept central, establishing Calvino in a variety of weights incorporating both screen and text utilize cases, and then broadening the style area with the addition of a display screen sub-family, Calvino Grande, to provide users with a full typographic scheme to cover all editorial needs. Sharing the very same formal structure, Calvino Grande sports condensed percentages, sharper information and tighter metrics. Both Calvino and Calvino Grande are complemented with a set of italic letterforms, with differences in design and slant to better work at various point size. All the 34 weights of the Calvino household included an extended Latin and Cyrillic charset, covering over two hundred languages, and all equipped with a wide variety of open type features including positional characters, alternate types, and stylistic sets. 4 variable typefaces are also included in the full plan, for any requirement of fine-tuning the typeface grade of weight.
Special thanks go to Laurène Girbal for the assistance in establishing the regular weight.
- Suggested uses: Calvino aims to offer users with a full typography palette to cover all editorial needs. Perfect for contemporary branding and logo design, vibrant packaging and countless other projects.
- 38 designs: 9 weights + 9 italics, 2 various designs + 4 variable fonts.
- 779 glyphs in each weight.
- Helpful OpenType features: Access All Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Case-Sensitive Forms, Glyph Structure/ Decay, Discretionary Ligatures, Denominators, Fractions, Kerning, Standard Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Kinds, Mark Positioning, Mark to Mark Positioning, Alternate Annotation Kinds, Numerators, Oldstyle Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Stylistic Alternates, Scientific Inferiors, Stylistic Set 1, Stylistic Set 2, Stylistic Set 3, Stylistic Set 4, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures, Slashed Zero
- 203 Languages supported (extended Latin and Cyrillic alphabets): English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Javanese (Latin), Turkish, Italian, Polish, Afaan Oromo, Tagalog, Sundanese (Latin), Filipino, Moldovan, Romanian, Indonesian, Dutch, Cebuano, Malay, Uzbek (Latin), Kurdish (Latin), Swahili, Hungarian, Czech, Haitian Creole, Hiligaynon, Afrikaans, Somali, Zulu, Serbian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Shona, Quechua, Albanian, Catalan, Ilocano, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Neapolitan, Xhosa, Tshiluba, Slovak, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Sicilian, Sotho (Southern), Kirundi, Tswana, Sotho (Northern), Belarusian (Latin), Turkmen (Latin), Lombard, Lithuanian, Tsonga, Jamaican, Dholuo, Galician, Low Saxon, Waray-Waray, Makhuwa, Bikol, Kapampangan (Latin), Aymara, Ndebele, Slovenian, Tumbuka, Venetian, Genoese, Piedmontese, Swazi, Zazaki, Latvian, Nahuatl, Silesian, Bashkir (Latin), Sardinian, Estonian, Afar, Cape Verdean Creole, 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, 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, Kaingang, Palauan, 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, 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, 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 Norse, Slovio (Latin), Volapük.
Font Family:
· Calvino Grande Monoline
· Calvino Grande Monoline Italic
· Calvino Grande Thin
· Calvino Grande Thin Italic
· Calvino Grande Extralight
· Calvino Grande Extralight Italic
· Calvino Grande Light
· Calvino Grande Light Italic
· Calvino Grande Regular
· Calvino Grande Italic
· Calvino Grande Semibold
· Calvino Grande Semibold Italic
· Calvino Grande Bold
· Calvino Grande Bold Italic
· Calvino Grande Extrabold
· Calvino Grande Extrabold Italic
· Calvino Grande Black
· Calvino Grande Black Italic
· Calvino Thin
· Calvino Thin Italic
· Calvino Extralight
· Calvino Extralight Italic
· Calvino Light
· Calvino Light Italic
· Calvino Book
· Calvino Book Italic
· Calvino Regular
· Calvino Italic
· Calvino Semibold
· Calvino Semibold Italic
· Calvino Bold Italic
· Calvino Bold
· Calvino Extrabold
· Calvino Extrabold Italic
· Calvino Variable
· Calvino Variable Italic
· Calvino Grande Variable
· Calvino Grande Italic Variable
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