Description
Calvino font family by Zetafonts has 37 font styles to choose from. Taking inspiration from the life and work of Italian author Italo Calvino, this type style experiments with contrasts and perceptions by balancing thicks and thins, curves, sharp angles, and serifs. This constant alternation creates a refined aesthetic that demands the reader’s attention while ensuring that each letter remains legible at all sizes. The family comes in thick and thin weights and both regular and italic versions.
Calvino is an excellent choice for body text thanks to its smooth, uninterrupted flow and legibility at small sizes. However, it is just as effective for beautiful bold headings, branding, editorial design, package design, social media, and mobile applications. The font stands out on its own and blends very well with secondary typography for creative combinations.
This free font family is free for personal use. Consider purchasing a commercial license to access its rights for business-related projects. If commercial usage is not an option, you can also donate to support the author’s efforts and encourage future font publications.
Calvino is an excellent choice for body text thanks to its smooth, uninterrupted flow and legibility at small sizes. However, it is just as effective for beautiful bold headings, branding, editorial design, package design, social media, and mobile applications. The font stands out on its own and blends very well with secondary typography for creative combinations.
This free font family is free for personal use. Consider purchasing a commercial license to access its rights for business-related projects. If commercial usage is not an option, you can also donate to support the author’s efforts and encourage future font publications.
Author's note
The font is for PERSONAL/NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. To download the full font family (all weights, glyphs, and numbers) and acquire the commercial license, please visit the website:
https://www.zetafonts.com/calvino
Discover the Calvino extension, Marcovaldo:
https://www.zetafonts.com/marcovaldo
For more information about the licenses, visit:
https://www.zetafonts.com/licensing
Contact:
Website: https://www.zetafonts.com
Email: info@zetafonts.com
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 millennium. Exactitude and visibility are translated typographically through the reference to sixteenth-century garalde typography and its controlled, highly legible letterforms. To balance this formal rigor, 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. Both Calvino and Calvino Grande are complemented with a set of italic letterforms, with differences in design and slant to better work at different point sizes. All the 34 weights of the Calvino family come with an extended Latin and Cyrillic character set, covering over two hundred languages, and all equipped with a wide range of OpenType features including positional numerals, alternate forms, and stylistic sets. Four variable typefaces are also included in the full package, for any need of fine-tuning the typeface grade of weight.
Special thanks go to Laurne Girbal for the help in developing the regular weight.
https://www.zetafonts.com/calvino
Discover the Calvino extension, Marcovaldo:
https://www.zetafonts.com/marcovaldo
For more information about the licenses, visit:
https://www.zetafonts.com/licensing
Contact:
Website: https://www.zetafonts.com
Email: info@zetafonts.com
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 millennium. Exactitude and visibility are translated typographically through the reference to sixteenth-century garalde typography and its controlled, highly legible letterforms. To balance this formal rigor, 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. Both Calvino and Calvino Grande are complemented with a set of italic letterforms, with differences in design and slant to better work at different point sizes. All the 34 weights of the Calvino family come with an extended Latin and Cyrillic character set, covering over two hundred languages, and all equipped with a wide range of OpenType features including positional numerals, alternate forms, and stylistic sets. Four variable typefaces are also included in the full package, for any need of fine-tuning the typeface grade of weight.
Special thanks go to Laurne Girbal for the help in developing the regular weight.
