Cairoli is a retro classic Sans Serif typeface that was designed by Mario De Libero & Cosimo Pancini, it was released in Italian type. However, this geometric font was originally cast by the Italian foundry Nebiolo in 1928, as a license of a design by Wagner & Schmidt, known as Neue moderne Grotesk. Its solid grotesque design (later developed as Aurora by Weber and Akzidenz-Grotesk by Haas) was extremely successful: it anticipated the versatility of sans serif superfamilies thanks to its range of weights and widths, while still retaining some eccentricities from end-of-the-century lead and wood type.
In 2020 the Italiantype team directed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Mario De Libero decided to produce a revival of Cairoli, extending the original weight and width range and developing both a faithful Classic version and a Now variant. The Cairoli Classic family keeps the original low x-height range, is very display-oriented, and normalizes the design while emphasizing the original peculiarities like the hook cuts in curved letters, and the high-waisted uppercase R, and the squared ovals of the letterforms. Cairoli Now is developed with a higher x-height, more suited for text and digital use, and adds to the original design with deeper ink traps and round punctuation, while slightly correcting the curves for a more contemporary look.
Born as an exercise in subtlety and love for lost letterforms, Cairoli stands, like its lead ancestor from a century ago, at the crossroads between artsy craftsmanship and industrial needs. Its deviations from the norm are small enough to give it personality without affecting readability, and the expanded weight and width range make it into a workhorse superfamily with open type features (alternates, stylistic sets, positional numbers) and coverage of over two hundred languages using the Latin extended alphabet.
Using this Cairoli Classic Font
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Cairoli Sans Serif Font
Designed by: Cosimo Pancini, Mario De Libero
Published by: Italiantype
Languages Supported: Multi-language support
With his talent and enthusiasm, the author has made extremely careful refinements for each design of this Cairoli Classic Font. Surely it will satisfy designers from amateur to professional. You must be one of them, the demo of this font provides you with basic useful features completely for free, you can download it and use it for your personal design purposes.
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