Shaun Mcbride

Calvino In designing the  Calvino  typeface family  Andrea Tartarelli  set himself the challenge to follow the principles expressed by the Italian writer  Italo Calvino   in his masterpiece  Six memos for the next millenium .  Exactitude  and  visibility  are translated typographically through the reference to sixteen century garalde typography and its controlled, highly legible letterforms. To balance this formal rigour,  lightness  and  quickness  were added by letting the design be inspired by the calligraphic hand, following the lesson of Gudrun Zapf. The idea of  multiplicity was kept central, developing  Calvino  in a range of weights encompassing both display and text use cases, and then expanding the design space with the inclusion of a display sub-family,  Calvino Grande , to provide users with a full typographic palette to cover all editorial needs. Sharing the same formal structure,  Calvino Grande  sports condensed proportions, sharper details and tighter metrics.