Poggio Revival

To revive the Poggio typeface, a typeface that traces its roots back to the 14th century, I first gathered letterform samples from historical sources Brunus and Poggius, Historia Fiorentina, Venice pages, and The Origin and Development of Humanistic Scripts. 

I defined the main features of the letterforms such as axis slope, contrast, and the shape of serifs and terminals. To recreate the softness and curviness of the original lowercase letterforms, I added a reed written style to the ending strokes. Also, I observed that Poggio has distinctive features: the protruding stroke on the horizontal bar of the lowercase e, the distinctive neck that connects the upper and lower bowels of the letter g, and the unique tail of the uppercase Q and R. After completing the typeface, I focused on spacing, which I adjusted based on testing with articles, placing the typeface in different mockups to ensure its usability in contemporary documents.

Typeface Design, Pratt Institute (In progress)