Established by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, Debora Manetti, and Francesco Canovaro more than a decade ago, Zetafonts is one of Italy’s premiere font foundries. Located in Florence, Zetafonts’ typography is dedicated to real-world usage and the needs of graphic designers. They typically prefer simplicity over elaboration, citing that overly-ornate type designs sometimes tend to carry themselves with just a little too much personality.
It’s a delicate balance, to be sure, but Zetafonts’ work is anything but simplistic. Their designs are exceptionally thought-out, built with intent from the moment of conception and precision throughout the process until its completion. Their work focuses on both contemporary aesthetics and a high degree of versatility, giving graphic designers some of the best products available on the market.
One of their recent releases is Studio Gothic, a geometric sans serif that rather reinvents the 1930s type design, Semplicità, originally crafted by Alessandro Butti for the Nebiolo foundry in Turin. Butti (1893-1959) was one of Italy’s most renowned and celebrated type designers and his work with Semplicità, which translates to “simplicity” from Italian to English, features the same minimal and bare-boned design logic that Zetafonts wove into Studio Gothic.
With architecture that is both classic and contemporary, Studio Gothic straddles the design aesthetics of the past and present. There is a timelessness to its letterforms, a quality that Zetafonts always strives to achieve in every one of their type designs. Designed by Andrea Tartarelli with Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Francesco Canovaro, Studio Gothic is traditional yet modern, bringing a fresh update to a beloved classic.
Studio Gothic features 24 fonts in total. Studio Gothic offers eight weights that range from Thin to Fat, with corresponding italics for each. The italics carry themselves with subtle elements of calligraphy, making them an especially beautiful choice for logo designs and elegant displays. The Studio Gothic family also includes Studio Gothic Alternate, which features an alternate letter set available in each of the same eight weights for greater design flexibility.
The range of styles and weights makes Studio Gothic appropriate for a wide range of design projects, including headlines, editorials, publishing, advertising, displays, signage, logos, product packaging, web design, mobile applications, labels, presentations, branding, and identity.
Studio Gothic offers a host of OpenType features and extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, Afrikaans, Latin Ligatures, Basic Greek, Basic Cyrillic for incredibly far-reaching global accessibility.
Zetafonts currently offers more than 30 products through YouWorkForThem, a beautiful array of sans serifs, serifs, scripts, and display fonts to suit a wide variety of graphic design projects. Visit their portfolio to view the rest of their work and check back often for new releases because you won’t want to miss them!