Established by Debora Manetti, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, and Francesco Canovaro more than a decade ago, Zetafonts is a Florence-based type foundry dedicated to crafting timeless and versatile type designs for a global design market.
Every release from Zetafonts ensures that art meets application flawlessly, offering products that integrate with contemporary design aesthetics while also providing the necessary language support and OpenType features that designers require for their projects. Most of Zetafonts’ releases straddle a fine line between body text and display font, meaning they are adaptable to projects of all types and sizes.
Over the years, the foundry has collaborated with a number of graphic designers and typographers around the world, and their work consistently takes an innovative approach that provides extensive functionality, versatility, and an undeniably attractive final presentation.
Oftentimes, the co-founders of Zetafonts will work together on a new project. Debora Manetti is a visual expert who focuses on brand consulting, design, and visual identity. Francesco Canovaro is a passionate designer and art director with a solid background in typography, graphic design, and branding. Debora and Francesco are the brilliant minds behind one of Zetafonts’ more recent releases, Freehand Brush.
Freehand Brush breaks away from Zetafonts’ typical design style in that it’s intentionally imperfect, at least from a visual standpoint, allowing for brush strokes that are somewhat shaky and almost unsure of themselves. Debora and Francesco wanted to emulate the natural appearance of handmade brush writing, an activity that lends itself to the exact appearance of Freehand Brush.
This “random script” captures the result of real handprinted lettering. Freehand Brush brings a touch of the organic to any project it’s applied to, including advertising, logos, labels, and product packaging. It’s a fresh script design that embraces its flaws; this is a font that’s proud of who it is and it makes no apologies – to anyone. Vivacious and strong, Freehand Brush is a beautiful addition to projects of all kinds, including displays, signage, posters, event flyers, and even greeting cards. It’s especially well suited to any branding or identity projects related to organic goods and whole foods.
The entire type system is comprised of four letter sets and two hand-drawn icon sets. Freehand Brush features two cursive script sets and two uppercase block letter sets for greater design versatility. OpenType ligature substitutions can be used to randomly alternate between different character variations to craft a more realistic and genuinely handwritten look. The script sets and block letter sets can be used separately or together in a limitless number of design applications.
Freehand Brush offers a series of 68 food icons and 78 UI icons, all hand drawn in a style that compliments the script and block letter sets perfectly. They’re a great addition to website designs, mobile applications, social media imagery, infographics, presentations and product packaging.
Freehand Brush, Brush Easy, Blockletter Regular and Blockletter Bold all extend multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Afrikaans for global accessibility.
Zetafonts currently offers more than 45 products through YouWorkForThem, an incredible array of type designs to suit a variety of project types and themes. Visit their portfolio to view their full body of work and check back often for new additions. We’re huge fans of Zetafonts’ work and we always look forward to their releases as they arrive!