Maestrale was designed by Christian Thalmann and published by Catharsis Fonts. Maestrale consists of 5 styles and household package alternatives. p > Maestrale is a paradigm-breaking brand-new take on calligraphy, built around a compact, serif-style core and outrageously long, flamboyant extenders. At large sizes, its confident, charming lettershapes are ideally matched for branding and decorative uses, whereas longer texts at smaller sizes naturally weave themselves into a streaming texture. The typeface comprises 1299 glyphs, consisting of lots of stylistic alternates, ligatures, small capitals, and initial, terminal, and linking kinds, and provides extensive OpenType programming to support them. The calligraphic kind of Maestrale is complemented by a matching text typeface (Maestrale Text) with brief extenders, offered in three cuts (a serif-style Roman, an upright Cursive, and a slanted Italic).

Maestrale is all about the lowercase; its capitals are deliberately understated so as not to steal the limelight. In reality, the typeface works really well when set solely in lowercase. Maestrale's small capitals are fitted into the core space of the lowercase, enabling them to be easily sprinkled with lowercase characters. At the same time, an OpenType function is offered to change a and e in small-caps text with their lowercase equivalents for a fresh unicase look.

Since alternates and ligatures play such an essential role, Maestrale uses 3 different modes of usage. The most uncomplicated method is simply to begin typing utilizing Maestrale Pro - the comprehensive OpenType programming will guarantee that collisions in between extenders are avoided and attractive ligatures are substituted for typical glyph combinations.

A more interactive approach is provided by the typeface Maestrale Handbook, which enables the user to manually choose alternate kinds and ligatures even in typographically unsavvy applications, such as PowerPoint (as long as basic ligatures are supported). Stylistic alternates are simply represented as ligatures of their base forms with one or more instances of the rarely-used by easily-accessed characters '~' (ASCII tilde) and '' '( spacing grave accent); linking types are built with "_" (highlight), multi-character ligatures with' |' (pipeline), and preliminary and terminal kinds with the "less than" and "greater than" characters. For circumstances, the Maestrale wordmark in the posters above was simply typeset with the string (' ma`est|r_a"' l"' e)|in Maestrale Handbook (The parentheses represent "less than" and "higher than" characters here.) Feel complimentary to type this string into the test line listed below and see what takes place! Make sure Basic Ligatures are allowed. A guideline sheet noting all alternate kinds and their ease of access is readily available from the Gallery tab on this page.

The 3rd mode of use is focused on professional designers, who make usage of advanced software application with extensive OpenType assistance. These power users are recommended to use the typeface Maestrale Pro once again, where all glyphs are accessible as stylistic alternates.

Maestrale Text is a less lavish but more flexible variation on the design of Maestrale, changing Maestrale's swashes with effectively compact extenders. It is meant to work as a completely matching text buddy to Maestrale calligraphy, but makes up a full-fledged typeface in its own right. It is equally in your home at display sizes as it is in pull quotes, titles, and high-impact blocks of text. Maestrale Text comes in 3 complementary faces: A serif-style Roman, an upright Cursive, and a tilted Italic.

Maestrale is the Italian word for "masterful". It is likewise the standard Italian name for the northwesterly mediterranean wind, better known by its French name, Mistral.

Acknowledgements: I am grateful to the useful souls on the Typophile forums for extensive feedback and encouragement on Maestrale, and to the TypeDrawers online forum for feedback on Maestrale Text. This typeface is devoted to Simone.

Font Family:
· Maestrale Pro
· Maestrale Manual
· Maestrale Text Roman
· Maestrale Text Cursive
· Maestrale Text Italic

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