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Download RNS Atlante Font Family From RNS Fonts

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Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 3 Download Now Server 2 RNS Atlante is an elegant high-contrast typeface designed for editorial use and inspired by calligraphy used in sixteen and seventeen century cartography. The italic stand out in running text by way of it's mannerisms and flat out whimsy and seek to condense the spirit of beauty through singularity. Download RNS Atlante Font Family From RNS Fonts

Download Lagarto Font Family From Sudtipos

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Download Now Server 1 Download Now Server 3 Download Now Server 2 Some years ago, a good friend and typophile, Gonzalo García Barcha, approached me with the idea of designing a typeface for his editorial project Blacamán Ediciones. He had just came across an hitherto unknown manuscript by Luis Lagarto, a colonial illuminator and scribe, working in Mexico City and Puebla in the late 1500s. The manuscript calligraphy was incredible and stunningly original. It featured three different hands by the scribe, intermingled in the text: a kind of baroque «Roman» roundhand; a very ornate, lively «Italic»; and some sort of irregular, playful, even funny «small caps». All imbued with an eccentric, convoluted zest and vivacious rhythm. Lagarto is the final result of translating these extraordinary hands into a digital type family. Since the manuscript had no