Poetica Font

Robert Slimbach created the generous characters in the Poetica font in 1992. The typeface family has 21 weights, which enables an unusual range of design options within a single typeface family. Numerous ornaments, ligatures, and swash letters bring to mind the early Renaissance and its illustrious artists, such as Giambattista Palatino, who later gave his name to Hermann Zapf's design.

For his typeface, Slimbach used the Lettera Cancellaresca, a cultivated humanistic italic that later served as a starting point for the development of italics during the Renaissance and after. This font is also paired with the edward script font.

Lettera Cancellaresca is stunningly beautiful, incredibly harmonic, and very readable. As seen in the weight Chancery 4, the early forms exhibit two distinct compositional tendencies: the static of the straightforward vertical capitals and the italic dynamic of the slanted lowercase alphabet. As seen in the weights Chancery 1-3, the means later adopt the lowercase slant. For the full effect of Poetica font's grace and beauty, set it as directed by the included suggestion.