Aquino Font Family is a display calligraphic stencil typeface inspired by a liturgic book made by portuguese friar Tomás Aquino in 1735 – Collectaneum Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis ad usum Congregationis S. Mariae de Alcobaça.
Friar Aquino’s Calligraphy shows a distinctive typographic flavour with a uniform and consistent execution of the serifed letters. He also wrote with unconnected strokes, resulting in stencil-like letterforms.
We analysed and followed the structures of Aquino’s minuscules, and used as models lowercase letters from different parts of the book. The design of the uppercase letters however is mostly original, as we decided to make them more consistent with the lowercase shapes and their logic of construction, instead of reproducing Aquino’s decorative majuscules.
Many thanks to R-Typography for making a demo version of this beautiful font available to everyone. Should you find Aquino Fonts helpful, we highly recommend upgrading to the full edition. The complete version includes a commercial license along with a range of additional features. You can review the purchase and licensing information below.
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