Rusticana
Rusticana Roman      Rusticana Borders

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Adrian Frutiger
Designed when: 1993
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Glyphic
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: cap, capsonly, decorative, glyphic, label, latin, latinserif, serif [suggest]

Rusticana

Rusticana is a part of the 1990 program “Type before Gutenberg”, which included the work of twelve contemporary font designers and represented styles from across the ages. Linotype offers a package including all these fonts on its web page, www.fonts.de. Rusticana was designed by Adrian Frutiger and appeared with Linotype in 1993. Its historical roots go back to the Roman Capitalis, the all caps engraved writing of ancient Rome which reached its peak in the first century. From this style evolved other Roman forms, and one, Rustica, proved particularly good for text on bronze, as opposed to in stone. The Rusticana of Frutiger has open, seemingly irregular forms which lend a distinctive rhythm to text.

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