Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli with Maria Chiara Fantini, Lovelace is Zetafonts homage to the tradition of 19th century "Old Style" typography - a revival of Renaissance hand-lettered shapes driven by the desire to develop a less official and more friendly alternative to Bodonian serifs. While taking motivation from the letter shapes created by Pheimester or Alexander Kay - with their calligraphic curves and heavy angled serifs that influenced Benguiat and Goudy's typefaces in the 70s - we also attempted to add elegance and contrast by following another 19th century revival style: the Elzevir. This digital homage to victorian typography, aptly named after the algorist child of lord Byron, is established in two optical sizes, both in a 6 weights range from extralight to extrabold. The text variant deals maximum readability thanks to the generous x-height and screen-friendly style, while the display variant master the sharp contrast and thin details needed for editorial and large-size titling use. The italics, highly influenced by calligraphy, have actually been matched with a display script household, including luscious swashes and linked lowercase letters, lovingly designed by Zetafont in-house calligrapher. All the thirty weights of Lovelace cover over 200 languages that use latin, cyrillic and greek alphabets, and include innovative Open Type includes as Stylistic Alternates, Requirement and Discretionary Ligatures, Positional Numerals, Little Caps and Case Sensitive Forms.
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