Introducing Monterchi Font. In 1459, italian painter Piero della Francesca spent seven days creating a fresco of a pregnant madonna in a small country church in the hilltown of Monterchi (Italy) while he was visiting his dying mother.
Today the fresco is considered to be one of the greatest Italian Renaissance masterpieces and in 2019 it got a new name by Art Director Riccardo Falcinelli who asked the Zetafonts team to create a custom font for the project.
The typeface system, which was designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini together with Andrea Tartarelli and Maria Chiara Fantini as a rework of Francesco Canovaro original Beatrix Antiqua, is a 50-weights ode to the beauty of classical roman letterforms that combines elegant alternates and quirky ligatures with an array of design options for clear and effective editorial, signage,
The base display family, Monterchi, enables unlimited design possibilities with a choice of six weights that go from the thin thin to the strong extrabold, all with the corresponding italics and a set of over a hundred optional ligatures.
A fine-tuned companion Monterchi Text has been developed to be the best in body use, with a larger x-height and wider spacing – it is clear and legible even at small sizes.
Virtuous Sans is free for personal & commercial use. Please download and enjoy.
Monterchi Font Family
License: Personal & Commercial Use!
Font Type: Free
Format: OTF, TTF
Total Files: 1
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