InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·Jun 23, 2020Notes on the rotunda types of the RenaissanceThey were the stock type for theological, legal and scholastic texts all over Europe, including Germany. Until the reformation marked…
InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·Sep 24, 2019Early ‘non-Jensonian’ Venetian romansA carefully illustrated review of 15th-century types which were seldom employed in more than one printing officeA response icon2A response icon2
InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·Oct 23, 2018The influence of Jenson on the design of romansEvidence tells us that all the roman lowercase letters to this day have been designed on the same framework as Jenson’s
InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·Dec 19, 2017The Venetian origins of roman typeWhy Jenson’s and Spira’s model has to be found in the ‘Paduan style’ rather than in the script of Poggio or other Florentine humanistsA response icon2A response icon2
InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·May 17, 2017The inner consistency of Gerard UngerAn interview with the Dutch type designer whose well-defined style has marked recent decades
InCASTbyRiccardo Olocco·Apr 4, 2017Nicolas Jenson and the success of his roman typeA close look at the earliest types cut in Venice shows that Jenson is one of the most important characters in the history of typographyA response icon7A response icon7
