Taleggio Foundry

Taleggio
Foundry

Independent foundry.
Typefaces, made slowly.

A display sans in three styles, for posters and covers.

Nottano is a display sans family in three styles: Black, Outline and Light. Its name comes from night: every letter keeps one small arched window, like a quiet house where someone is still awake. Black is the heavy headline, Light the thin voice beside it, Outline the playful one with a soft shadow. Set them together on posters, covers, labels and packaging.

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Styles
Black, Outline, Light
Genre
Display sans
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
36 px and up

A warm slab serif in three styles, for shop signs.

Granaio is a warm slab serif display family in three styles: Regular, Bold and SC, the small caps. Its name means the granary where a farm keeps its harvest, and its letters come from the names painted on farm-shop boards and delivery vans: heavy, friendly and a little narrow, with the soft touch of a sign-painter's brush. Set it on shop signs, labels, packaging and price cards.

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Styles
Regular, Bold, SC
Genre
Slab serif
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
24 px and up

A flared sans in four styles, for labels.

Fiammella is a flared sans serif family in four styles: Light, Regular, Italic and Bold. Its name means little flame, and its strokes swell gently toward their ends like the tip of a candle flame, with long swash tails for names. Calm, warm and quietly premium, it suits labels and packaging for candles, soap and natural cosmetics.

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Styles
Light, Regular, Italic, Bold
Genre
Flared sans
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
24 px and up

A retro editorial serif in four styles.

Rotocalco is a retro editorial serif family in four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. It is named after the Italian illustrated weeklies printed by rotogravure, and its round, full letters bring back the confident, friendly glamour of magazine covers and posters from the 1950s to the 1970s. Set it large on headlines, book covers, posters and packaging.

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Styles
Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
Genre
Editorial serif
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
24 px and up

A medieval hand that still reads.

Leggio is a medieval display font. Its name is Italian for the lectern that held the great choir books, and its letters are inspired by the Rotunda book hands of 14th- and 15th-century Italy. Sharp pen strokes and open, generous shapes give titles a striking medieval rhythm while smaller text stays easy to read. Set it on fantasy book covers, game titles, labels and posters.

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Style
Regular
Genre
Medieval display
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
24 px and up

Casual lettering from the menu board.

Spuntino is a casual display font. Its name is Italian for a snack, and its letters follow the quick marker lettering of café and street-food menu boards, so a word reads friendly and fast. It has the feel of the day's specials written up just before the doors open: relaxed, a little hurried, never stiff. Set it on menus, chalkboards, price tags, packaging and market posters.

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Style
Regular
Genre
Casual marker display
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
72 px and up

Condensed letters with a line of light.

Fanlight is a condensed inline display font. A fanlight is the half-round window above an old shop door, often painted with the name of the shop, and the font comes from that sign-painting tradition: tall, narrow letters with a fine line of light running through them. One word set in Fanlight reads from across the street. Set it on signs, shop fronts, labels and packaging.

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Style
Regular
Genre
Condensed inline display
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
72 px and up

A Latin alphabet with a Persian accent.

Zarafshan is a calligraphic display font. It is named after the river that runs past Samarkand, and it brings the rhythm of Persian calligraphy to the Latin alphabet: generous curves and an easy, flowing line give a single word the mood of an old tale. Set it large on book covers, posters, labels and menus.

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Style
Regular
Genre
Calligraphic display
Languages
30, Latin script
Best at
72 px and up

About

Taleggio Foundry is a small, independent type studio. Our name is Italian, and so is our taste. We draw display type in which a single word carries a whole mood.

Typefaces
5 available
Formats
OTF, TTF, WOFF2
Licences
Desktop, Web, App, ePub

Contact

Questions or custom licences:

contact [at] taleggiofoundry.com