Brera and Solferino
Brera and Solferino are the new custom typefaces we designed together with the studio Molotro for the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Being asked to design a custom type family is a rather rare opportunity in Italy. The call from Corriere della Sera was exceptional, and we were extremely pleased when the paper’s art director, Gianluigi Colin, requested our hand in the project. Our work, begun in 2004 and completed in 2007, includes 41 weights split into four families: Brera, Brera Condensed, Solferino Display and Solferino Text. The concept behind the system of typefaces is aimed at meeting both technical and formal requirements. Brera and Brera Condensed are contemporary sans serif fonts. Their open structure has been designed to reduce any horizontal stretching of the text. Solferino Display is a serif font for big type size and titles. It’s a sort of “Scotch-Italian” alphabet whose purpose is to give the newspaper a strong personality and elegance. Solferino Text has been specially designed to allow a greater number of characters while ensuring and improving legibility. Compared to the alphabets previously in use, it has been possible to save 12 out of 100 lines of copy text.
What we have done
- type design
