Fantini Pro Font

Publisher: Canada Type

Fantini is the revival and sophisticated upgrade of a typeface called Fantan, made internal and released in 1970 by a small Chicago film type provider called Custom Headings International. In the most outstanding custom of seriously-planned American movie deals with at that time, CHI released a full complement of swashes and alternates to the curly art nouveau letters. Fantan didn't fare much among the type scene's huge players back then, but it did spread like electrical power amongst the smaller ones, the mom-and-pop type stores. However by the late 1980s, when movie type was giving up the ghost, many smaller sized players in the industry were gone, in many cases along with little original libraries that existed no place else and became instantaneous rarities on their method to be forgotten and nearly impossible to reanimate for future technologies.

Fantini is the enjoyable and curly art nouveau font style bridging the softness and psychedelia of the 1960s with the flirtatious flare of the 1970s like no other face does. Elements of psychedelia and funk flare out and intermix wildly to develop cool, swirly letters loaded with a great deal of happiness and energy. This is the sort of American art nouveau font that made its return in the late 20th century and is now a basic visual in the branding drive of practically every customer product, from coffee labels to book and music covers to your favorite sugar or thirst-crunching fix.

Alongside Fantini's massive primary font come little caps and three additional typefaces packed with swashy alternates and variations on plenty of letters. All readily available in all popular font formats. Fantini Pro, the OpenType version, loads the entire she-bang in a single font style of high adaptability for those who have applications that support advanced type technologies.

In order to make Fantini a reality, Canada Type got initial 2" movie specimen from Robert Donona, a Clevelander whose enthusiasm about American film type has never faltered, even decades after the innovation itself became obsolete. Watch out for that name. Robert, who was computer-reluctant for the longest time, has now come a long method toward mastering digital type design.