Description
Beatrix Antiqua is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro. Beatrix Antiqua is part of the Beatrix Family that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model: its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence Santa Croce Cathedral – where the serifs are often removed while keeping the variable width strokes. So, even if it’s basically a sans-serif, Beatrix keeps a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif – in the same vein as Herman Zapf classic Optima typeface. In the lowercase design, Beatrix references early humanist typefaces, keeping small calligraphic details (as the prolongation of the e nose) that are especially visible in the italics. While Beatrix Antiqua, the companion typeface to Florentia, slightly exaggerates its antique stylistical features, Florentia tries to mix those influence with a more robust & digital age ready design, featuring bigger X-height and an extended character set that covers over forty languages using the latin alphabet, as well as Greek and Russian Cyrillic.
Design, Publisher, Copyright, License
Design: Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Pancini, Andrea Tartarelli
Publisher: Zetafonts
Copyright 2016 by Zetafonts. All rights reserved.
License: COMMERCIAL
Francesco Canovaro
Zetafonts is a font foundry created by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Debora Manetti. Almost all of these fonts were created as part of the design process for logos and printed materials. Many were created for the experimental magazine ego[n]. Foundry in Florence, Italy. [z]fonts is the font development section of Studio Kmzero, a Florence (Italy) based Design and Communication Agency. Studio Kmzero is an Italian design firm in Firenze consisting of three graphic designers, Francesco Canovaro, Debora Manetti, and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini.
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Typefaces: Beatrix Antiqua, Blacker Sans, Cocogoose Classic, Klein
More… TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION | Francesco Canovaro
Cosimo Pancini
Born in Firenze in 1969. Cofounder with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti of the Italian design firm in Firenze called Studio Kmzero.
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Typefaces: Beatrix Antiqua, A Day without Sun, Cocogoose Classic, Klein
More… TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION | Cosimo Pancini
Andrea Tartarelli
Graphic designer in Pietrasanta, Italy, who heads Surface Studio.
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Typefaces: Beatrix Antiqua, Blacker Sans, Cocogoose Classic, Klein
More… TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION | Andrea Tartarelli
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