Publisher: VanarchivEscritura was developed for editorial purposes and the letter types are influenced by chancery handwriting from the Italian Renaissance. The asymmetrical shapes of the undulating serifs cause the characters to have a large aperture.
Originally developed for screen sizes, the typeface likewise can be found in a text variant for little sizes. With taller vertical percentages, the text version has somewhat longer serifs and increased white area in between the characters to optimize legibility in small sizes. Ascenders and descenders and serifs are shorter in the display version, which has more affordable letter spacing leading to an aesthetically compact text image.
The tension in the letter strokes develop varying widths according to their instructions, enhancing the calligraphic rhythm in the characters. The oblique crossbar along with other typographic details provide the typeface that normal Renaissance atmosphere.
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