Beatrix Antiqua Font

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 Hermann Zapf's classic Optima typeface. In the lowercase design, Beatrix references early humanist typefaces, keeping small calligraphic details (such as the prolongation of the 'e' nose) that are especially visible in the italics. While Beatrix Antiqua, the companion typeface to Beatrix Nova, slightly exaggerates its antique stylistic features, Beatrix Antiqua tries to mix those influences with a classic design, featuring lower x-height and an extended character set that covers over forty languages using the Latin alphabet, as well as Greek and Russian Cyrillic.

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