Saturday 12 June 2010

What type are you?

Answer 4 simple questions and you'll be told by Pentagram's What Type Are You what kind of type(face) you are. I turns out that I am Pistilli Roman... YES!


"Pistilli Roman

Co-designed by Lubalin and Pistilli in the 1950's; Pistilli Roman is a typeface that combines a disciplined form, notable in the ultra fine lines, carefully joining the bold ones with an emotional geometry notable in the curling circles. If you always demand that things be in order and then are always incredibly moved when they are, Pistilli Roman is your type."

Ha amazing, very true. It's funny though, I've loved this typeface for many a year and now to discover that I am this type(face).... how big of a narcissist am I huh?








Unfortunately it's not available digitally. However, Veer has released a digital revival of an old Didone style (in the style of 2 other super beautiful typefaces Bodoni and Didot) photo-typepositing face. It's called Eloquent and it's based on Pistilli Roman. "This new digital version evokes late 1960s magazine advertising, and includes the rarely seen swash variant, and features several newly created alternate swash caps (A, J, Q, Z, M, K,R) and one new alternate lowercase swash and several lowercase ligatures. The font contains both lining figures and old style figures." A very handsome typeface.

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