Designed at Nebiolo and commonly credited to Aldo
Novarese. First shown in Graphicus No. 34 (Oct.
1953). The design is dated by Novarese to 1951 in
Alpha-beta (1964), and hence was started already under
Alessandro Butti’s direction (1936–1952).
[Olocco]
No lowercase.
Phototype adaptations shown by PLINC as Fontaines
(and as Fontanes in the index) [PLINC One Liner 1971] and by Photoscript as
Fontanesi. [1973
catalog]
Amateur digitizations include Spatz (Lorvad, 1993),
Fontanesi (House of Lime, 2000), and Fontaniolo (Intellecta Design, 2007).
Kudos Kaps Five NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2006),
part of a medley of decorated types by Nick More…
Designed at Nebiolo and commonly credited to Aldo Novarese. First shown in Graphicus No. 34 (Oct. 1953). The design is dated by Novarese to 1951 in Alpha-beta (1964), and hence was started already under Alessandro Butti’s direction (1936–1952). [Olocco] No lowercase.
Phototype adaptations shown by PLINC as Fontaines (and as Fontanes in the index) [PLINC One Liner 1971] and by Photoscript as Fontanesi. [1973 catalog]
Amateur digitizations include Spatz (Lorvad, 1993), Fontanesi (House of Lime, 2000), and Fontaniolo (Intellecta Design, 2007). Kudos Kaps Five NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2006), part of a medley of decorated types by Nick Curtis, includes Fontanesi in its lower case and the numerals. Fontanesi RMU (RMU, 2018) is another digital interpretation with wider language support and minor changes (see e.g. ‘Q’).
