Created by Franck Jalleau, Francesco is a historic font family. This typeface has two designs and was published by BAT Foundry.

A new tribute to old ways

Franck Jalleau's versatile and vigorous typeface is inspired by Venetian faces of the Renaissance, especially those cut by Francesco Griffo who lends it his name. Adopting old-style classicism and handbook drawing, Francesco is soft and approachable without jeopardizing readability.

Francesco is designed like no other modern typeface. With its obstructed counterforms (a, e), it stimulates 15th-century prints. Yet this face isn't simple pastiche; it is notified by standard methods. Simply as punchcutters did by cutting letters from steel one by one, Jalleau provided each glyph, even similar ones, its own shape, bringing range to the setting. Likewise, shapes such as serifs that are frequently replicated in current practice, are individually crafted, rendering a lively, lively text. Various ligatures and alternates even more improve titles and brief texts.

Among Francesco's historic sources is the famous * Hypnerotomachia Poliphili * printed in 1499 by Aldus Manutius, the biggest printer of the Renaissance. Jalleau carefully studied this mythic book of great typography to notify his digital work. By discovering from classical process, instead of just replicating a look, Francesco is an unmatched contemporary symptom of the Renaissance.

Font Family:
· Francesco Regular
· Francesco Italic