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Portonovo

Inspired by a historic font used in the Martyrologium Romanum, a renowned book printed by the esteemed Plantin Press in 1690, Portonovo captures the essence of early versions of Garamond and Caslon.

Portonovo distils the nature of this inspiring piece of printing and translates it into the digital age. The printed source material leave room open for interpretation, which I used deliberated.

Portonovo delights with its streamlined manner and still has a classical feel which resembles this golden era of book manufacturing.

The typeface is structured in two subfamilies; Portonovo for larger uses and Portonovo Text, which is helpful for smaller sizes under 8pt. The font contains an extended feature set; including small caps, oldstyle numbers and swashes.

Find more information about the design process of Portonovo at our blog post.

The typeface is available as individual weights and as a variable font with an axis Book → Black plus an axis Text → Normal. The family package includes two variable fonts: upright and italic.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Weight

Optical Size

Seppie col nero alla veneziana

1912 in balloon experiments

Pizzo di Madéi 2551 m s.l.m.

fabrique de montres précises

¿ojé me llamas por teléfono?

exact types of measurement

170g do Açores Verdes chá

Well begun is half done?

lo que se siembra de recoge

Every picture tells a story

Los Pirineos son más antiguos que los Alpes: sus sedimentos se depositaron por primera vez en las cuencas costeras durante las eras Paleozoica y Mesozoica. Hace entre 100 y 150 millones de años, durante el período Cretácico Inferior, el golfo de Vizcaya se desplegó, empujando a la España actual contra Francia y aplicando una intensa presión de compresión a grandes capas de roca sedimentaria. La intensa presión y la elevación de la corteza terrestre afectaron primero a la parte oriental y se movieron progresivamente a toda la cadena, culminando en la Época del Eoceno. La parte oriental de los Pirineos se compone principalmente de rocas de granito y gneiss, mientras que en la parte occidental los picos de granito están flanqueados por capas de piedra caliza. El carácter masivo y sin uso de la cordillera proviene de su abundancia de granito, que es resistente a la erosión.

The International Typographic Style has had a profound influence on graphic design as a part of the modernist movement, affecting many design-related fields; including architecture and art. It emphasises cleanness, readability, and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element besides its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named. The style emerged from a desire to represent information objectively, free from the influence of associated meaning. The International Typographic Style evolved as a modernist graphic movement that sought to convey messages clearly and in a universal manner.

Wie auf dem festen Land, so gibt es auch im Meer, Erhöhungen und Schluchten. Viele Berge unter dem Meer sind höher, manche Gebirgszüge sind länger, viele Schluchten tiefer als irgendwo auf dem Festen. Wenn man den höchsten Berg mit seinen 8847 Metern Höhe, in die tiefste Tiefe versenken wollte, so würden immer noch gut 2186 Meter Wassertiefe über seinem Gipfel liegen. Während aber alle Erhebungen auf dem festen Land dem ständigen, zermürbenden Angriff von Erosion ausgesetzt sind, stehen die Gebirge unterm Meer unversehrt im stillen Wasser der Abgründe. Lediglich ihre obersten Spitzen, die durch das Wasser durchstoßen und uns als Inseln erscheinen, werden vom Wind, von der Brandung und vom Regen angegriffen. Der Meeresboden ist in drei Abschnitte unterteilt : den Kontinental-Schelf, den Kontinental-Abfall und den Tiefseeboden.

Normal Version

Book

300

Book Italic

300

Regular

400

Regular Italic

400

SemiBold

500

SemiBold Italic

500

Bold

700

Bold Italic

700

Black

900

Black Italic

900

Text Version

Book

300

Book Italic

300

Regular

400

Regular Italic

400

SemiBold

500

SemiBold Italic

500

Bold

700

Bold Italic

700

Black

900

Black Italic

900

Formats

Desktop: otf (PS)
Variable Desktop: TTF-Variable-Font
Web: woff / woff2 /
Web Variable: woff / woff2
App: otf (PS) / TTF-Variable-Font
Variable App: TTF-Variable-Font

Language Support Latin +100

Afaan Oromo Aymara Basque Bemba Bosnian Catalan Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Gikuyu Greenlandic Hungarian Indonesian Irish Italian Ilocano Javanese lat. Kurdish lat. Latvian Lithuanian Malay Moldovan Norwegian Polish Portuguese Quechua Q’eqchi’ Romanian Romansh Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tshiluba Turkish Walloon Welsh Wolof Zulu

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