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Fabbrica. Technicality boosting versatility

5 September 2023

Michele Patanè’s Fabbrica is not only a pragmatic, multifaceted sanserif face, it is a practical reflection on the geometric genre and the nature of technical shapes. It comes in two styles – Fabbrica and Fabbrica Sharp – each with eight weights and matching italics. Highly readable at small sizes, and so distinctive that it is fine for big headlines or titles, Fabbrica is eminently suitable for branding, publishing and advertising, as well as for technical publications

Divenire can’t stop growing

23 June 2022

Luciano Perondi talks about the genesis of the Divenire family which now includes Divenire Mono and Divenire Variable Font

Gramma: what is micro does not look like what is macro

1 March 2022

Gramma is a robust and (apparently) geometric typeface good for headlines and main bodies of text. Designed by Riccardo Olocco and first released in 2014, it's now available in 5 weights with their matching italics

Zenon doubles the stakes

11 January 2022

This ‘contemporary Renaissance’ book typeface is now available in eight weights with matching italics. Designer Riccardo Olocco tells us about the origins and main features of his ‘relaxed’ and ‘quiet roman’ suitable both for print and screen

The pairing superfamily: Jantar Sharp and Jantar Flow

7 December 2021

Designed by Radek Łukasiewicz, this font-pairing superfamily is a new resource for publishing and branding. Jantar Sharp and Jantar Flow are intended to communicate with individual, yet complementary voices. Available separately, they can be purchased all together at a nice price

Cast it: spreading the type

16 November 2021

Fournier’s ‘Avis aux amateurs de l’art de l’imprimerie’ is the subject of the latest issue of Cast it, the publication created to discuss the history and culture of type and to display CAST Foundry’s typefaces. Previous issues feature original texts in German, English and Italian respectively

Xanti Typewriter: metamorphosis of a logo

19 October 2021

Based on the logo created in the mid-1930s for Olivetti by Xanti Schawinsky, Xanti Typewriter is a monospaced family designed by Gianluca Sandrone for CAST Foundry. It is suitable for visual identities, editorial purposes and coding

The intriguing shapes of Neon Nbl

30 November 2020

Faithfully digitised by Alessandro Colizzi, the latest production from the CAST Foundry revives Giulio da Milano’s modernist monocase sans released by Società Nebiolo Torino in the early 1930s. Equipped with an enticing load of alternate forms, ligatures and other type niceties, and available in four styles and five weights (plus the shaded version Ombra), the Neon face is back to the future

Fulmar: practical and prettier than a Scotch Roman

7 August 2020

Scotland born & based, farsighted designer Leo Philp introduces Fulmar, his brand new book face for CAST Foundry — the Scotch Roman which ‘might wear a hat, but never indoors’. Named after a North Sea seabird, Fulmar claims connections with Alexander Wilson and the foundry of Miller & Richard and draws inspiration from the Romain du Roi. With its practical beauty, it comes in five weights, ten styles, small caps, number sets and a couple of quirks you will fiddle about with