Lettera Mono
Lineto.com
2012
Initially drawn for the book Area 2, and is used throughout the book exclusively. The font is based on a single weight basic specimen of a mid 70‘s typewriter font designed by Joseph Müller-Brockmann for Olivetti.
Lettera is available as an Extended Latin OpenType format, including eastern European, Turkish, Baltic scripts, and alternate glyph. The specimen used for redrawing the first weight was a lo-resolution scan. When blown up large, it showed what appeared to be “reversed” ink-traps in critical joints of some glyphs.
These elements that guided the design and later turned out to be a mistake caused by the poor quality of the document, remained. Lettera was later developed into a proportional version, Lettera-Txt, also available at Lineto.
For more information on Lettera Text, please see here.
︎︎︎ Download specimen (PDF)
Lettera is available as an Extended Latin OpenType format, including eastern European, Turkish, Baltic scripts, and alternate glyph. The specimen used for redrawing the first weight was a lo-resolution scan. When blown up large, it showed what appeared to be “reversed” ink-traps in critical joints of some glyphs.
These elements that guided the design and later turned out to be a mistake caused by the poor quality of the document, remained. Lettera was later developed into a proportional version, Lettera-Txt, also available at Lineto.
For more information on Lettera Text, please see here.
︎︎︎ Download specimen (PDF)