Lorenzo
Lorenzo is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Philip Bouwsma. It comes in 3 weights, from Light to Bold. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Lorenzo T he lifetime of Lorenzo de Medici (1449–1492) coincides with the rise of metal type as it displaced broad pen calligraphy for the production of books. This revolution marked the end of formal Western calligraphy, as the industry employed metalworkers who designed type according to geometric measurement while calligraphers were forced to become secretaries who practiced handwriting systems. Renaissance Florence should have witnessed the marriage of calligraphy and typography, just as all
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans
- Weights
- Light, Book, Bold