Keratine Thin
Keratine Thin Italic
Keratine Light
Keratine Light Italic
Keratine Regular
Keratine Italic
Keratine Medium
Keratine Medium Italic
Keratine Bold
Keratine Bold Italic
Keratine Extrabold
Keratine Extrabold Italic
Keratine Heavy
Keratine Heavy Italic
Keratine Black
Keratine Black Italic
The letterforms that we now accept as the historical standard for printing latin alphabets were developed in Italy around the end of 1400. Deriving from Roman capitals and from italic handwriting, they soon replaced the blackletter letterforms that were used a few decades before by the first moveable type printers like Gutenberg. Keratine, designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, exists in a space between these two traditions, mixing the proportion of humanistic writing with the strong slabs and fractured handwriting of gothic calligraphy. At small point size it keeps it readability while it shows all its strong personality when used in big point size. Like our Kitsch by Francesco Canovaro it explores the impossible territory between antiqua and blackletter, not as a mere historical research, but rather as a way to re-discover and empower an unexpected and contemporary dynamism - resonating with today’s brutalist typographic taste.
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(HO!)Case-Sensitive Forms
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stctDiscretionary Ligatures
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VagaStylistic Set 1
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OggiStylistic Set 2
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QKADCStylistic Set 3
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QKADCStylistic Set 5
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1a 3thOrdinals
Variable Typefaces
Keratine Variable
Variable fonts are only available with the full family package (and might not be supported by all software)
The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.
The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.