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Arzachel

Arzachel

by CAST
Individual Styles from $45.00 USD
Complete family of 8 fonts: $170.00 USD
Arzachel Font Family was designed by Riccardo Olocco and published by CAST. Arzachel contains 8 styles and family package options.

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About Arzachel Font Family


Arzachel is a humanistic sanserif with a big x-height and a specific organic look. Its design is scientifically sharp and efficient in small type sizes as well as rugged and dramatic in headlines. Arzachel’s essential feeling comes from several features: all the letters are slightly sloped, stem terminations are flared at the top, and the terminals in letters a, c, e, f… are widening with the inside parts completely flat. The stroke contrast is low in the regular weight while it increases in the black; finally the capitals have an inscriptional flavor. Despite being a sanserif (thus a product of recent typography) Arzachel’s roots stretch back to the Renaissance tradition: Olocco took inspiration from some of the early and rather weird types cut in Venice in the 15th century. Arzachel was conceived during Olocco’s MA in Reading to provide a companion for his Zenon for use in small type sizes. But instead of expanding the Zenon family with optical sizes, the designer decided on a sans with its own personality rather than a sanserif version of Zenon with chopped-off serifs.

Designers: Riccardo Olocco

Publisher: CAST

Foundry: CAST

Design Owner: CAST

MyFonts debut: Mar 2, 2019

Arzachel

About CAST

CAST (Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici) is a digital type foundry set up as a cooperative. Sole Serif and Sole Sans (EDA Silver 2019) are among its best sellers. Besides its type collections, CAST offers a wide range of consulting services (custom design, engineering, training and teaching) and actively promote the culture of type through Cast it, a publication that makes use of texts from the history of typography as specimens, and the Articles section of its website.

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