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Capraia

Capraia

by CAST
Individual Styles from $45.00
Complete family of 16 fonts: $380.00
Capraia Font Family was designed by Giulio Galli and published by CAST. Capraia contains 16 styles and family package options.

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About Capraia Font Family


Capraia is a book typeface, with a heavily quirky look when shown at big sizes, and with an irregular but attractive rhythm at text sizes. Capraia Book and Regular are designed specifically for continuous texts: Book meets a current preference of Italian publishers for lighter faces, while the slightly heavier Regular is intended for the wider international market.

True to its vocation for publishing, Capraia has a big x-height, medium contrast and wide bracketed serifs. Furthermore, its slightly flattened curves, some unconventional roman letterforms (a, G, Q) and the 'slanted roman' italics, along with design details such as ball terminals, give to the whole family a very contemporary appeal.

Originally the design was intended as a tribute to Caslon's Great Primer but at a certain point the designer was enthralled by Baskerville. Capraia is the unpredicted and original result of that intense experience.

Designers: Giulio Galli

Publisher: CAST

Foundry: CAST

Design Owner: CAST

MyFonts debut: Feb 15, 2020

Capraia

About CAST

CAST (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici) is a digital type foundry set up as a cooperative. Sole Serif and Sole Sans (EDA Silver 2019) are among its best sellers. Besides its type collections, CAST offers a wide range of consulting services (custom design, engineering, training and teaching) and actively promote the culture of type through Cast it, a publication that makes use of texts from the history of typography as specimens, and the Articles section of its website.

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