Designers: Francesco
Canovaro,
Andrea
Tartarelli,
Maria
Chiara
FantiniDesigned by Francesco Canovaro with aid from Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini, Kitsch is a typeface happily living at the crossroads between classical latin and middle ages gothic letterforms. But, instead of referencing historical models like the italian Rotunda or the french Bastarda scripts, Kitsch attempts to restore both its inspirations, finding a modern vibe in the dynamic texture of the calligraphic broad-nib pen applied to the proportions of the classical roman skeleton. The resulting high contrast and spiky details make Kitsch master display utilizes, while a fine-tuned text variation manages to keep at little sizes the vibrant expressivity of the style without compromising legibility. Both versions are developed in a vast array of weights (from the nearly monolinear thin to the thick black), and are totally equipped with a prolonged character sets covering over two hundred languages that utilize latin, cyrillic and greek alphabets.
Special care has been put in designing Kitsch italic letterforms, with the broad-nib motions referencing classical italian letterforms to include much more tones to your typographic combination. The resulting alternate letter shapes have actually also been consisted of in the roman weights as Stylistic Alternates - part to the vast array of Open Type functions (Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Positional Characters, Little Caps and Case Sensitive Forms) offered with all the 32 weights of Kitsch.
Born for editorial and branding usage, Kitsch is trendy however solid, sure of oneself enough to look timeless while ironic adequate to be contemporary.
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