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Kornel: a key face to text composition 

Kornel is the brand new serif type family for long reading designed by Radek Łukasiewicz for CAST foundry. Inspired by Renaissance typography rather than by a specific typeface, it shows ideas that ensure consistency and clarity to texts on screen or printed.   Following Jantar, this is your second release with CAST. Kornel, as well […]

Roma Neue, the Swiss-style sanserif

Here we are with the latest sans released by CAST foundry. Designed by Stefano Cremisini, Roma Neue is a historical hotchpotch of the most representative of the late 19th-century grots and their popular 20th-century descendants – such as Helvetica, Univers and the like. Practical, neutral, timeless, Roma Neue can deftly support even the most complex projects

Cyrillic with Ilya Ruderman

From 10–12 June, CAST and Politecnico di Milano organise and host an unmissable three-days Cyrillic typeface design workshop. Registrations are open

Introducing Ernst, the party animal

Designed by Léon Hugues, Ernst is a light-hearted and glamorous slab serif rooted in early 20th-century continental Europe. With its fetching details it works well as a display face while its consistent design also makes Ernst suitable for setting texts

Fabbrica. Technicality boosting versatility

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

Zenon doubles the stakes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where goats dare

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

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

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

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

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

The Observer chooses CAST

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

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