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Francesco is a lively design, varied and readable.
It has a large character set with numerous ligatures, a randomization feature, and an extended language support for more than 100 languages including greek and cyrillic.
Francesco has been created by Franck Jalleau. This flexible and vigorous typeface is inspired by venitian faces of the Renaissance, especially those cut by Francesco Griffo. Mixing Old-Style classicism and manual drawing subtelty, Francesco is soft and friendly without compromising readability.
Francesco is designed like no other conventionnal typeface. With its obstructed counterforms (a, e), it evokes the XVth century prints. Like punchcutters did, by chopping letters from steel one by one, Francesco has several designs for similar letters, thus bringing variety in the setting. Likewise, some usually rationnalized shapes (serifs) are subtly crafted in Francesco and render a vibrant, lively text. Francesco features numerous ligatures and alternates to enhance titles and short texts. One of the source material used by Franck Jalleau is the 1499 "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", printed by Aldus Manutius, Renaissance's greatest printer. This mythic book and its fine and innovatice typography has been carefully studied. It gave birth to this unique digital version, respawning the art of the Renaissance.
OpenType features
Ligatures & special ligatures
Small Capitals
Arrows, symbols and ornaments
Alternates
Stylistic sets: randomization
Figures: lining, old-style, tabular & proportionnal
Figures: superiors, inferiors, numerators & denominators
Automatic fractions
Slashed zero
Case-Sensitive Forms
Localized Forms
Ordinals
Historical Forms
Language support
Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arrernte, Asturian, Basque, Bislama, Blackfoot, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Dalecarlian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Gallegan, Genoese, German, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Japanese transliteration, Kashubian, Kiribati, Korean transliteration, Kurdish, Ladin (Gardena), Ladin (Valle di Badia), Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian, Luxembourgeois, Macedo-Romanian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marshallese, Megleno-Romanian, Micmac, Náhuatl, Norwegian, Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Papiamento, Pedi, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, Saint Lucia Creole, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Samoan, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Latinized), Seychelles Creole, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvalu, Upper Sorbian, Uyghur, Veps, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Zhuang, and Zulu.
File version
1.001 - April 2010
It has a large character set with numerous ligatures, a randomization feature, and an extended language support for more than 100 languages including greek and cyrillic.
Francesco has been created by Franck Jalleau. This flexible and vigorous typeface is inspired by venitian faces of the Renaissance, especially those cut by Francesco Griffo. Mixing Old-Style classicism and manual drawing subtelty, Francesco is soft and friendly without compromising readability.
Francesco is designed like no other conventionnal typeface. With its obstructed counterforms (a, e), it evokes the XVth century prints. Like punchcutters did, by chopping letters from steel one by one, Francesco has several designs for similar letters, thus bringing variety in the setting. Likewise, some usually rationnalized shapes (serifs) are subtly crafted in Francesco and render a vibrant, lively text. Francesco features numerous ligatures and alternates to enhance titles and short texts. One of the source material used by Franck Jalleau is the 1499 "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili", printed by Aldus Manutius, Renaissance's greatest printer. This mythic book and its fine and innovatice typography has been carefully studied. It gave birth to this unique digital version, respawning the art of the Renaissance.
OpenType features
Ligatures & special ligatures
Small Capitals
Arrows, symbols and ornaments
Alternates
Stylistic sets: randomization
Figures: lining, old-style, tabular & proportionnal
Figures: superiors, inferiors, numerators & denominators
Automatic fractions
Slashed zero
Case-Sensitive Forms
Localized Forms
Ordinals
Historical Forms
Language support
Afaan Oromo, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Arrernte, Asturian, Basque, Bislama, Blackfoot, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cheyenne, Cimbrian, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Dalecarlian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Gallegan, Genoese, German, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hmong Daw, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Japanese transliteration, Kashubian, Kiribati, Korean transliteration, Kurdish, Ladin (Gardena), Ladin (Valle di Badia), Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Lower Sorbian, Luxembourgeois, Macedo-Romanian, Malagasy, Malay (Latinized), Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marshallese, Megleno-Romanian, Micmac, Náhuatl, Norwegian, Nyanja, Occitan, Oromo, Papiamento, Pedi, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, Saint Lucia Creole, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Samoan, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian (Latinized), Seychelles Creole, Sicilian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sorbian, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tongan, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvalu, Upper Sorbian, Uyghur, Veps, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Zhuang, and Zulu.
File version
1.001 - April 2010
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