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Rialto Piccolo dF

Rialto Piccolo dF

by CAST
Individual Styles from $305.00
Complete family of 4 fonts: $730.00
Rialto Piccolo dF Font Family was designed by Giovanni De Faccio and published by CAST. Rialto Piccolo dF contains 4 styles and family package options.

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About Rialto Piccolo dF Font Family


Rialto dF is a book face inspired by calligraphic tradition. Named after the famous bridge in Venice, it was conceived as a bridge between calligraphy and typography, roman and italic. It can also be thought of as an imaginary bridge between Italy and Austria, since it is the result of collaboration started in 1995 between the Austrian Lui Karner and Venetian Giovanni de Faccio.

The letterforms of Rialto dF were drawn directly in digital format with a starting point deriving from humanistic letterforms memorized in the hearts, minds and the manual ability of its designers… As tradition demands, uppercase, numerals and punctuation are used in combination with italics – the same solution adopted by Francesco Griffo when he cut his first italic for the Virgil, the first of the octavo series printed and published in Venice by Aldus Manutius in 1501.

Rialto dF comes in two optical weights: Piccolo, for up to 14 pt, and Grande for 16pt and above. Alternate characters and various dingbats are also provided and these are available through OpenType features developed by type designer and technician Karsten Luecke.

Designers: Giovanni De Faccio

Publisher: CAST

Foundry: CAST

Design Owner: CAST

MyFonts debut: Mar 21, 2020

Rialto Piccolo dF

About CAST

CAST (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici) is a digital type foundry set up as a cooperative. Sole Serif and Sole Sans (EDA Silver 2019) are among its best sellers. Besides its type collections, CAST offers a wide range of consulting services (custom design, engineering, training and teaching) and actively promote the culture of type through Cast it, a publication that makes use of texts from the history of typography as specimens, and the Articles section of its website.

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