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Where goats dare

24 March 2020

Is there anything special about Giulio Galli’s Capraia? Take another look at this book typeface and see if you can spot anything… More information below

A grotesque and modern type family called Sempione

4 November 2019

The new family of sanserifs designed by Tipiblu is a blend of Italian flamboyance and Swiss rigour. With its two main styles, each coming in seven weights and with matching italics, it is eminently suitable for publishing and advertising

The typescape of Valnera

4 September 2019

This angular typeface design by Riccardo De Franceschi for CAST Foundry works nicely for both text and display. Design influences range from Alpine landscapes to Oldřich Menhart’s work and to a certain kind of 1970s photocomposition feel. Valnera comes in eight weights with matching italics as well as Valnera Monster – a rather special guest. Furthermore, in the random version of the type family, two ‘almost random’ procedures allow for dynamic patterns in the shaping of text

No Serif without Sans

25 October 2018

Luciano Perondi and Riccardo Olocco have designed Sole Sans, the new sans created to accompany Sole Serif. Interview by Massimo Gonzato

Macho, a synsemic writing system

24 January 2018

Luciano Perondi talks about his modular typeface and its new features: moustaches, brackets and underlinings. Macho Moustache and Macho Modular

The Observer chooses CAST

23 January 2018

Since 21 January 2018 The Observer uses the Sole Serif face, designed by Luciano Perondi for Il Sole 24 Ore and now further developed by CAST for the relaunch of the oldest Sunday paper in the world