Fervent
Terminal Design · James Montalbano
The sans-serif companion to Badinage, with roman forms that borrow from italic shapes and a run of alternate letters that push it past any one sans category.
About
Fervent takes the unadorned alternate capitals from Montalbano's script typeface Badinage and rebuilds the concept as a sans, carrying over details like the epsilon-shaped e and the forms of a, n, m and k. The roman weights lean on italic structure for a sense of motion rare in a sans, and alternates for a, e, g, r and s open up several personalities within the ten-weight family.
Classification
Pitched by the designer as the sans-serif companion to his script Badinage, translating some of that script's lowercase details. Its roman forms borrow from italic shapes, giving it unusual motion for a sans. Recategorised here as sans-serif; the design itself is not a script despite its script parentage.