Item: Montagna LTD
Montagna LTD
Humanist among tradition and experimantation
- Author
- hederaedesign
- Category
- Fonts , Sans-Serif
- Published At
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๐ฆ **PRESENTATION OF THE FONT** You can say hello to the font that inaugurates a **series** of upcoming production entirely *inspired by the Italian historical culture* that meets different *styles and artistic inspirations*. **Montagna LTD** tells in a *single graphic expression* the **decorativism of Stile Liberty** and the **functionality of humanistic writing**. ๐ **THE LIBERTY INSPIRATION** The Montagna LTD font has an ancient soul inspired by the **Stile Liberty** that we can find in the **details of the terminal traits** and in the **composure of the forms**. With the term *"Liberty"* we mean an artistic movement that, especially in the *late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries*, concerned mainly architecture and applied arts. The cultural aesthetic phenomenon of the so-called Arte Nuova, was also called "floral" for the taste of biological, natural and phytomorphic forms. ๐ฎ๐น **A TRIBUTE TO ITALY** The historical aspect strongly characterizes the fonts belonging to this series, and Montagna LTD is a **tribute to Italy of the early twentieth century**. And there is an artist who remembers this font very much in his works: it is **Leopoldo Metlicovitz**, *painter, illustrator, scenographer and Italian publicist*. One of his most famous posters is the theatrical representation *"Cabiria"* by *Gabriele D'Annunzio*. The Montagna LTD font therefore has the **mood** of an **ancient Italy**, revised for a **modern and international use**. ๐ก **THE FUNCTIONALITY OF HUMANISTIC CHARACTERS** The *structure of the font is revised and simplified* according to the humanist style that makes it current, functional and **easy to read**. This group of characters is based on the humanistic writing of the *fifteenth century manuscripts*, as opposed to the Gothic one used by Gutenberg for the first printing with movable characters around 1450. The humanistic calligraphy, rounder and wider, was obtained with a wide nib, which allowed for greater plasticity. Nowadays, the humanistic fonts, precisely because they are inspired by this classic writing with a big and slanted nib, keep the fundamental characters in the history of the font design, remembering the handwriting. ๐ **CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FONT** - *Ink traps* - *Slightly condensed letterforms* - *tight and sharp serifs * - *Inclined axis to the right* - *balanced contrast* - **It supports more than 230 languages โโincluding the Cyrillic** - It has several **Opentype functions** including: *Standard Ligatures, discretionary Ligatures, Stylistic Alternatives, Small Caps, superscript and subscript and Fractions.* ๐จ **USE OF THE FONT** The tight and very pointed serifs of the Montagna LTD font make it **perfect for editing books, labels, logos and to make websites more interesting**, by contrasting them with logos or other sans characters. โ๏ธ **LICENSE** Hederae Type Foundry **End-User License Agreement (EULA) - Print / Desktop** Computer screens, paper, web pages, photographs, movie credits, printed material, T-shirts, and other surfaces where the image is a fixed size. Fonts to create EPS files or other scalable drawings provided that these files are only used by the family or company licensing the font.