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Quaderno

Resistenza Type · Giuseppe Salerno, Paco González · 2015

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scriptupright connected script
Quaderno specimen from Resistenza Type

A monolinear upright connected script drawing on Italian Bella Scrittura and early 20th-century commercial lettering, suited to children's publishing, educational materials, and display headlines.

About

Quaderno merges Italian Bella Scrittura with French script traditions into a connected, monolinear upright letterform that reads as both vernacular and considered. The numeric weight system – from 2 to 33 – gives fine-grained control over stroke thickness, while the Calligraphic and Noodle sub-families extend the range into flat-nib and expressive territory. Its natural home is children's books, educational materials, and display headlines where a handwritten warmth is the point.

Classification

Monolinear upright connected script drawing on Italian Bella Scrittura and early 20th-century French commercial lettering. The numeric weight naming system (2 through 33) denotes stroke thickness progression rather than conventional weight names. A Calligraphic sub-style references flat-nib technique; Noodle sub-styles are bolder, rounded variants. A companion family, Quaderno Slanted, provides oblique versions of all styles and is sold separately.

Weights

247101520253033CalligraphicNoodle 5Noodle 10Noodle 20Noodle 30Noodle 33Noodle 36

Family

CalligraphicNoodle

Languages

Western European

Tags

scriptuprightmonolinearconnectedchildren's publishingeducationalsignagecalligraphicItalian20th centurydisplayhandwritten