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Bucintoro™

by Three Islands Press
Individual Styles from $24.00 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $59.00 USD
Bucintoro Font Family was designed by Lars Bergquist and published by Three Islands Press. Bucintoro contains 3 styles and family package options.

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Bucintoro Family

3 fonts

Best Value!

Per Style:

$19.66 USD

Pack of 3 styles:

$59.00 USD

About Bucintoro Font Family


Bucintoro is a modern version of the rotunda blackletter, the Gothic book hand of Italy and Spain in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. As the name implies, it's more "rotund" than the tall, angular Textur blackletter used in Germany that Gutenberg imitated. While the use of blackletter continued far into the 20th century in Germany and Scandinavia, the rotunda gave way to roman (and later also italic) letterforms in Italy, France, and Spain. It's less well known these days. Bucintoro has upper- and lowercase alphabets, numerals, punctuation, diacritics but lacks such modern characters as currency symbols. Has light, medium, and black weights.

Designers: Lars Bergquist

Publisher: Three Islands Press

Foundry: Three Islands Press

Design Owner: Timberwolf Type

MyFonts debut: Apr 28, 2011

Bucintoro™ is a trademark of Timberwolf Type.

About Three Islands Press

Three Islands Press (a.k.a., “3IP”) is a small type foundry in Rockport, Maine. Specialties include historical replications, fine text type, old map fonts, and painstaking recreations of vintage and modern handwriting. 3IP is the d.b.a. of Brian Willson, who accidentally stumbled into type design in the 1990s after a career in print and broadcast journalism. He has absolutely no formal training—just a peculiar knack for making fonts that look like real handwriting and antique text materials. 3IP also represents the work of Swedish type designer Lars Bergquist, whose previous career was publishing of encyclopedias and reference literature in the days of lead type. Bergquist’s elegant, varied, multipurpose typefaces are as polished as any out there.

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