Cocogoose Pro Variable

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Cocogoose Pro

Cocogoose Pro Letterpress Regular

Cocogoose Pro Letterpress

Cocogoose Pro Text Regular

Cocogoose Pro Text

Milligram Regular

Milligram

Milligram Macro Regular

Milligram Macro

Milligram Text Regular

Milligram Text

R41 Alfabeta Variable

R41 Alfabeta

R41 Dattilo Regular

R41 Dattilo

R41 Nova Gotica Regular

R41 Nova Gotica

R41 Proclam Regular

R41 Proclam

Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini bought his first typeface, an Arnold Boecklin letraset transfer, when he was nine years old. Since then, he hasn’t stopped playing with letters, written or drawn, working as a type designer, visual arts educator and creative director for print, digital and video. He has designed over fifty typeface families for Zetafonts foundry, which he co-founded with Francesco Canovaro and Debora Manetti . His typefaces include Cocogoose, Blacker (selected by Myfonts as one of the best new families of 2019), Monterchi (CA typography award 2020, Myfonts hidden gem 2019), Stinger (CA typography award 2021), Stadio Now (TDC68) and Keratine (CA typography Awards 2023). He has a cat named Bodoni and too many books.

Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini in 2013, Cocogoose was first expanded in 2015 with the help of Francesco Canovaro who co-designed the decorative display weights and Andrea Tartarelli who developed the condensed widths. In 2020 a full redesign of the typeface has been published: Cocogoose Pro now includes new widths, weights, open type features and characters, thanks to the help of Mario De Libero.Influenced by vernacular sign-painting and modernist ideals, Cocogoose is drawn on a classic geometric sans skeleton, softened by rounded corners and slight visual corrections. Its very low contrast, dark colour and tall x-height make it a solid choice for all designers looking for a powerful display typeface for logos, headings and vintage-inspired branding. The tall x-height makes texts set in Cocogoose very readable even at small sizes, while the bold regular weight allows for maximum impact when used as a branding, signage or decorative typeface.Cocogoose Pro was designed as a highly reliable tool for design problem solving, and given all the features a graphic designer needs, starting from its wide range of widths and weights. Its 2000+ latin, cyrillic and greek characters make sure it covers over 200 languages worldwide, while its comprehensive set of open type features allows faultless typesetting thanks to small capitals, positional numbers &amp; case sensitive forms. A wide range of alternate letterforms, developed along nine different stylistic sets, gives you an extra level of design fine-tuning. The layerable and colour-ready display variants include inline, outline, shadow and a letterpress version that can simulate the effect of old print, also thanks to programmed randomization of its letters.Cocogoose Pro has been completely re-engineered in 2020 to include extra features and technologies. A variable font version allows you to fine tune precisely the appearance of the text while minimizing download size on the web. A darkmode weight range has been added to the whole family, to keep consistency of effect when the typeface is used in reverse on the web and in dark mode interfaces. Also, a new text subfamily has been developed for body text usage, to keep the look and feel of Cocogoose while maximizing readability on screen and on the printed page.

Grotesque sans typefaces: you know you won’t ever get tired of those. And any moment you decide that Vignelli was right and one swiss font is enough, here comes a new specimen from the past inviting you to try new takes on the modernist letterforms. It&#x27;s a tight and crowded design space, so design decisions are subtle and almost unnoticeable. Whoever you decide to be in the details - either God or the Devil - you surely need a taste for the infinitesimal to work with these shapes. Time design borders sandstoning shapes, in a delicate equilibrium between modernist precise ideals and the fascinating energy of old lead grotesques. The resulting typeface developes around an idiosincratic relationship with negative space, inspired by the tight metrics modernist designers imposed on their layouts. Leaving a text optimized spacing to the text subfamily, Milligram plays with a feeling of attraction behind shapes, something brought to the extremes in the logo-oriented Milligram Tight Variant. Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini with Andrea Tartarelli, Milligram is a fine but bold homage to the Akzidenz Grotesk that never was.

typeface from R41

Like others before him, Novarese formulated a classification of fonts, dividing them into ten families, including the Egyptians. Graceful and thick, the Egyptian, or slab serif, was born at the end of the nineteenth century and is perfect for advertising, which began to develop precisely at that time. Dattilo was designed from this matrix: a revival of the classic typewriter in a contemporary key, in line with the growing success of modern sans serifs without betraying their original elegance.

In the R41 font collection, the so-called “gothic” fonts have always been much loved: for this reason, in 1988, Aldo Novarese was asked for a custom-made font, belonging to the so-called “medieval” family, but capable of completely innovating the shapes of classic blackletter characteristics. With much study, Novarese succeeded in his aim, imagining a character with a classic appearance but with irresistible new shapes, managing to combine tradition and experimentation.

Proclam was originally designed by Aldo Novarese for Reber R41 in 1989. This condensed Bodoni is almost timidly hidden by the boldness of its shadow. To enhance its eclectic elegance, R41 developed a Regular version, capable of highlighting its classic beauty, while making it an versatile design for any type of headline or display presentation.