Normandia
Normandia is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type in 1949, designed by Alessandro Butti and Hans van Maanen. It comes in 3 weights, from Book to Heavy, with italics. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Normandia D esigned over three years after the second World War, and published in 1949 by the Nebiolo foundry, Normandia was Alessandro Butti's take on the fat face. As it usually was with Butti's designs, this face effectively injected a catchy yet expertly calculated calligraphic spin into its source of inspiration — which was the essentially geometric/deco, thicker model of Bodoni's very popular aesthetic. The metal Normandia saw some widespread use for a handful of years after its publicatio
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans
- Weights
- Book, Regular, Heavy
- Released
- 1949