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Everseen is an Irish company that developes visual AI for business.
I’ve been contacted by Ideosuite in 2022 to improve their custom font used to create logotypes and headlines.

See a selection of all FSD custom brand fonts.

Everseen custom font 2022 designed by Fabrizio Schiavi in use
Some brand names typeset in Everseen custom font deisgned by Fabrizio Schiavi
e as icon set in Everseen custom font 2022 designed by Fabrizio Schiavi
Everseen custom font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi
Everseen logo and pay-off typeset in the new Fabrizio Schiavi custom font
Everseen custom font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi numbers and punctuation at work
 

Nure posters designed by Artiva Design, Fuss and Ideosuite on Nure valley.
Pictures by Alessandro Casagrande.
Typeface Nure variable font designed by Fabrizio Schiavi.

 
PragmataPro Fraktur 1.2 2023

Under the numerous requests of expansion of the essential set, I finally completed the PragmataPro Fraktur typeface.

I designed numbers, lowercase numbers are default but uppercase ones are available via OpenType feature Lining Figures (lnum).
s lowercase is available also in historical version enabling OpenType feature Historical Forms (hist)
The set includes for the first time, I suppose, the unreleased design for Fraktur alphabets of glyphs like currency symbols (€ $ £ ¢ ¥) the ampersand (&) etc.
I designed all these unseen before glyphs in Fraktur using the priciples used in the Middle Ages: slants of the parts of the outlines (55° and 72°), variable weights of these parts and modular horizontal rhythm.

PragmataPro Fraktur 1.2 2023 OpenType Ligatures

I also designed ligatures to improve the readability and to respect North European tradition.
There are two kind of hyphen, endash, emdash and equal: default ones at 55° and the alternative at 0°, enabling using OpenType Stylistic Set 01 feature (ss01).

If you are interested to see more about this upgrade visit PragmataPro Fraktur page.

 
Nure all posters designed by Artiva, Fuss, Ideosuite and Jekyll & Hyde

I asked to some of my favourite graphic designers to make some poster using Nure variable font as principal tool.
At the moment there are 22 posters designed by Artiva Design, Fuss, Ideosuite and Jekyll & Hyde. Others will comes soon.
The 70×100 cm posters are avilable to order directly from this page.

 
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Nure variable font included in ADI Design Index 2022

The Italian association for the industrial design — ADI — included my Nure variable font in its annual ADI Design Index 2022.

ADI is the owner of the historic Compasso d’Oro award assigned to the best designers of the world since 1954.

 

To use Nure variable font, in combination with PragmataPro, as default font in your browser may improve your productivity.

After downloading Nure variable web font put in you user folder,
install Custom Style Script and addon available for the most used browsers for free and put this code in Options page.

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Nure';
    src: url('/Users/(your user folder)/Nure11-VF.woff2') format('woff2-variations'), 
         url('/Users/(your user folder)/Nure11-VF.woff2') format('woff2');}
body, .css-901oao, ._292iotee39Lmt0MkQZ2hPV, a, abbr, address, area, article, aside, audio, b, bdi, bdo, blockquote, br, button, canvas, caption, cite, col, colgroup, command, datalist, dd, del, details, dfn, div, dl, dt, em, embed, fieldset, figcaption, figure, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, html, i, iframe, img, input, ins, kbd, keygen, label, legend, li, main, map, mark, menu, meter, nav, object, ol, optgroup, option, output, p, param, progress, q, rp, rt, ruby, s, samp, section, select, small, source, span, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, textarea, tfoot, th, thead, time, tr, track, u, ul, var, video, wbr 
{font-family: 'Nure'; font-weight: 300;  font-variation-settings: 'opsz' 18, 'wdth' 80;} 

Where font-weight is the first axis ‘Weight‘, its values starts from 100 to 900,
font-variation-settings: 'opsz' is the second axis ‘Optical Size‘, its values starts from 12 to 72
font-variation-settings: 'wdth' is the third axis ‘Width‘, its values starts from 75 to 125, according with Windows standards.

Changing these values you can find your perfect set up.

A visual example using Hacker News as test site:

Hacker News website Default view. Custom Style Script add on OFF
Actual view. Custom Style Script add on OFF
Hacker News website Default view. Custom Style Script ON setting in Nure variable font
Custom Style Script ON with this settings:
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 20, ‘wdth’ 90;}
Hacker News website Default view. Custom Style Script ON setting in Nure variable font
Custom Style Script ON with this settings:
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 30, ‘wdth’ 110;}
Hacker News website Default view. Custom Style Script ON setting in Nure variable font
Custom Style Script ON with this settings:
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 18, ‘wdth’ 80;}
Hacker News website Default view. Custom Style Script ON setting in Nure variable font
Custom Style Script ON with this settings:
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 240; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 18, ‘wdth’ 80;}
Nure variable font combined with PragmataPro monospaced font in Mozilla Firefox
Nure combined with PragmataPro in Mozilla Firefox

This is just a quick view of the potential of using a variable font like Nure as default font.

 

Seitu™ born with the goal to be one of the most readable fonts starting from the Bob Noorda’s coop logo.

After years of testing I can affirm that it is one of the most readable font designed until now. Take a look!

 

oook™ specimen display texts taken from teenage.engineering

The oook™ variable font project was improved in these days because it’s full of potentiality.

oook™ variable font specimen display texts sample

Ideal for branding

Now this extraordinary variable font and its OpenType features is also a perfect tool for the branding of companies and corporations.

spreadsheet typeset in oook font

Best spreadsheet font?

The wide eyes of the letters guarantiees unique readability at low sizes and now is one of the best typeface for spreadsheets in Excel or LibreOffice.

Try it to believe!

 
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This version coming from my experience as web developer.
Often I exchanged colon (:) with semicolon (;) and sometime I had the suspect that L lowercase can be more distinguished using a new design. After this redesign I can work now more sure to avoid misinterpretations.

Redesign dollar l colon eszett in PragmataPro 0.829


— Curly slash and backslash in Git tree command line

It’s possible to enable it using Pragmata Pro™ with OpenType Stylistic Set 13 named ‘git tree’.
Every slash and backslash, at specific conditions, will appears with curly terminations even with Italic versions.
From now coders can see a more nice Git tree in their command line editor

PragmataPro command line git tree


— Extended the range of ligatures

Ligatures helps a lot the programmers. Now the help is increased!

PragmataPro 0829 ligatures


— Added Bulgarian and Serbian language support

Cyrillic set now includes also Bulgarian and Serbian characters


— Other improvements:

— Regular: Soft dotted improved and Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols glyphs can be accented
like other standard letters using Combining Diacritical Marks set

Regular: improved the design of APL glyphs

Regular: improved the design of Mathematical Operators

Regular: BQN programming glyphs like
˜˘•÷׬⎉⚇⍟◶⊘⎊⍎⍕⟨⟩√⋆⌽∊↑∧⊔⊏⊐π←↙⍷⍋⊑⊒⍳⊣⊢⍉↕⊸∘○⟜⋄↩↖⌾⥊↓∨⌊⍒⌈≢≤≥⇐… are improved by design

Regular: added curly arrows ︎↖︎↗ ↙↘︎ ↘︎↙ ↗↖︎ ligature coming from ↘︎ ↖︎ ↗ ↙ diagonal arrows combinations

Regular: Geometric Shapes set are more distinguished at small sizes

Regular: added Combining Diacritical Marks Extended and Combining Diacritical Marks Supplemental set

all weights: checkmarks appears by default from now, no more from Stylistic Set ss12

all weights: added Creative Commons glyphs and harmonized © copyright sign also

all weights: added Hellschreiber pause symbol

all weights: improved design and positioning of Graphics for Legacy Computing symbols


Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.
Thank you!

 

Dutch public-service broadcaster NTR uses CP Company by Fabrizio Schiavi Design as the default typeface for their visual identity. From Wikipedia:

NTR was created in 2010, following the merger of the Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and two educational broadcasters, Televisie Academie (Teleac) and the Radio Volksuniversiteit (RVU).

CP Company is used in all of its four weights, from on-screen graphics to the website and annual reports. Gast Producties have worked on the design of the TV station at least since 2013.

Exemplary name title
Exemplary end titles
Exemplary end titles
Website detail (program overview with filters)
Spread from NTR’s annual report 2018
The NTR building in Hilversum in 2010, with a banner announcing the new station and its key topics (youth, education, information, culture, school TV, diversity).

For more infos visit the complete Fonts in use page

 
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Amazing use of my typeface PragmataPro by Rai, the public Italian TV broadcast, to promote the 50th Internet Day.

Art director: Roberto Bagatti

Happy Internet Day to all!

 
PragmataPro HTML5 Entity compared with other fonts

— All the 2109 HTML 5 entities are included in this version

From now your web page can supports HTML5 entities without worries with Pragmata Pro because it’s one of the rarest fonts that can do this.

HTML5 requires also some weird combined characters hard to find.

All the 2109 HTML5 entities was designed and available since PragmataPro 0.828

Click here to see the entire HTML 5 list set in PragmataPro™

— Comodore 64 nostalgia?

Sample of PragmataPro Graphic for Legacy Computing coming from Teletext, Atari and Comodore64

Pragmata Pro™ is the first monospaced typeface offering ‘Graphic for Legacy Computing’ Unicode set. All these glyphs coming from Teletext, Atari and Comodore 64 system.

These symbols converted as text are designed to build images. Practically is a ‘Block Elements’ set extension.

— Added Runic set

PragmataPro Runic, includes Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Runes

I love the design of Runic letters and, after the request of a user, I’ve added them with pleasure to PragmataPro

PragmataPro Runic coding sample

PragmataPro Runic is the first monospaced Runic of all time

— New # TODO, # ERROR and other useful programming ligatures

PragmataPro new # TODO, # ERROR and other useful programming ligatures

Do you remember [TODO], [ERROR]… ligatures?
The same trick was extended also # TODO, # ERROR

— Better Drawings with Boxes and Arrows

PragmataPro 0.828 - All the glyphs of the 'Box Drawing' set are vertically aligned to 'Arrows', 'Supplemental Arrows', 'Supplemental Arrows-C' and 'Geometric Shapes' when they are next

The position of the arrows or geometric shapes like triangles are now correct when them are next to Box Drawing symbols.
Since v_0.828 diagrams and schemas are now more consistent

— Greek letters are more distinguishable

PragmataPro new Greek Theta, theta and zero. Letters are more distinguishable

— PragmataPro Arabic with accents

PragmataPro Arabic with accents planned to works as automatic composition

PragmataPro Arabic diacritics are combinable with Arabic script

— Other improvements:

Regular: ‘Greek’, ‘Cyrillic’,’Latin Extended-A’ and ‘Latin Extended-B’ sets
are combinable with ‘Combining Diacritical Marks’

all weights: added these new ligatures:
->- -<- =>= =<=

all weights: added and updated new Nerd symbols from Nerd font

Regular: improved the design of  л (el), м (em), н (en), ģ (gcommaccent)

Regular: improved the design of some ‘Mathematical Operators’ and ‘Miscellaneous Technical’ glyphs to improve APL programming

Bold, Italic and Bold Italic: added ‘Latin Extended-B’ and ‘Latin Extended Additional’ sets

all weights: added the glyphs set by two numbers ‘Enclosed Alphanumerics’ like 11, 12, 13… 20

Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.Thank you!

Kus-stenen retraced by Fabrizio Schiavi, set in PragmataPro Runic
 
Fabrizio Schiavi Adobe Fonts

Some Fabrizio Schiavi Design fonts are available with Adobe Creative Cloud. If you use Adobe CC you can download and use them for free everywhere!

Fonts available:

– Eco
PragmataPro Fraktur
PragmataPro Fraktur Bold
Nove
Essential PragmataPro
Essential PragmataPro Bold
Siruca
Sys
Sys Bold
Sys Italic
Sys BoldItalic
– SysFalso
– SysFalso Bold
– SysFalso Italic
Virna

Download all these fonts from here:
https://fonts.adobe.com/designers/fabrizio-schiavi

 
Mike Sierra Tango exhibition poster

PragmataPro, with other multiscript typefaces, will be show at MIKE / SIERRA / TANGO exhibition.
Presented by Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter College of Design south campus, Pasadena CA
Curated and Designed by Lavinia Lascaris, HMCT Exhibitions Designer.
Opens February 7 2019

PragmataPro panels at ArtCenter Pasadena context
Fabrizio Schiavi with PragmataPro panels at ArtCenter Pasadena
PragmataPro panels at ArtCenter Pasadena
 
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PragmataPro 0.827 loading time, a giant running like a cheetahWith the help of @kelas and other good friends of Pragmata Pro from the open source community, version 0.827 comes with a brand new ligature substitution engine which is 10-20x faster than before, depending on the input.

Now Pragmata Pro, with its 9437 glyphs, can be loaded in a few µs.
Practically a giant who run like a cheetah!

 


— Java and C/C++ reserved keywords are now kerned

PragmataPro C++ and Java reserved keywords kerned with GPOS table

Pragmata Pro™ is the first monospaced typeface to offer precise glyph positioning in common programming keywords, enabled by default in editors that support OpenType GPOS table.
The consistency and orthogonality of fixed pitch is now combined with the finesse of a proportional font.
The result is less tiring, aesthetically pleasing coding experience.
Your eye will know the difference before you do.

 


 

— Added Enclosed Alphanumerics set

Pragmata Pro Enclosed Alphanumerics

In all the weights of all the versions.

 


 

— Enabled Hebrew Nikkud

Pragmata Pro Hebrew Nikkud

At the moment only in Regular versions. In the next releases the same marking system will be added to all the weights and also in Arabic alphabet.

 


 

— Added Markdown checklist ligatures

Markdown checklist ligatures are available enabling OpenType Stylistic Set 12 in your editor and are based on these combinations:

- [ ]    - [-]    - [v]    - [x]

 


— Marks and accents are combinable with letters

PragmataPro sample of letters combined with marksMarks  are often used in Phonetics texts and Mathematical formulas.
Since this version they are in their right place.

 


 

— Other improvements:

all weights: problems with some terminal emulators have been resolved

all weights: added these ligatures:
|- turnstile like
||- double turnstile like
_|_ bottom like
=~= <-< >-> <--> <== <<== ==>>

all weights: vertical position of * (asterisk) are aligned to x-height

Regular: improved TrueType hinting of → ← ↑ ↓ # { } / \

Regular: improved the consistency between Mathematical Operators and Miscellaneous Technical set

— Bold, Italic and Bold Italic: added IPA characters and its extensions

all weights: typing us after numbers and space will appears microsecond µs in serif variant

 


 

Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.
Thank you!

 
PragmataPro optimized for Terminal app

I’m working at the PragmataPro 0.827 release and in order to fixing the slowdown of Terminal with the complete PragmataPro issue I’ll include in the package also Essential PragmataPro with the characters and symbols essential for programming.

For this I need your help in identify the very essential Unicode characters for this new Essential version.

Please select the Unicode Ranges and the OpenType features you feel essential or contact me directly if you prefer

Thanks for your time!

PragmataPro 0.826 all characters
PragmataPro 0.826 OpenType features
2018-06-25 Essential Pragmata Pro survey results
 
Siruca Stencil Wayfinding Flag at Milan Design Week
The flag you’ll find at via Ventura 12, Milan. The pictograms meaning is: draw using Siruca Stencil here

One of the most successful projects by Fabrizio Schiavi Design is certainly Siruca, the typographical system created in 2006 for the wayfinding of the complex Al Hamra in Kuwait City.

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2018, a special stencil in plexiglass containing the essential letters of the Siruca alphabet will be exhibited in via Ventura 12.

A limited edition design object that could be sold-out very soon just like the previous edition in steel produced in 2009.

Overlapping of Siruca Stencils in Plexiglass
Overlapping of Siruca Stencils in Plexiglass

Every visitor can write using the stencil what he things in a 100 meter paper, buying a deck of Siruca Playing Cards or just take a free copy of a poster designed for this exhibition with all characters of Pragmata Pro in one of the sides.

See you at Milan Design Week!

via Ventura 12, Milan
April 17—22 2018

 
PragmataPro Live perimetral view

PragmataPro Live is the exhibition of the first set of 9,000 glyphs of the Regular weight printed on a Forex panel of 21 meters folded into a big spiral.

PragmataPro hint created between the folded panel

PragmataPro exhibition is hosted by Aiap at the first floor of Palazzo Poli, the palace where was build Trevi Fountain in Rome and it’s visible until October 1, 2017

PragmataPro Live Rome poster

My son presents PragmataPro Live installation to you in a unusual way: a roller coaster inside the hint created by the big spiral. He makes a great surprise to me with this video. ❤️

PragmataPro is here, Palazzo Poli Rome
 

After many requests, I decided to change the font files structure of PragmataPro:

 

New font files structure since PragmataPro 0.826

The PragmataPro complete pack includes two folders: Fonts with ligatures and Fonts without ligatures
Both folders includes two kind of fonts grouped as Modularspaced and Monospaced.

The goal is to fit the need to have Modularspaced fonts without ligatures, Monospaced fonts with ligatures.
Two situations impossible to get before.

 


— New ligatures for R language and C#

Now the entire set of ligatures has reached 177 for every weight (Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic)!

 

PragmataPro 0.826 new ligatures

 

 


 

— Harmonized APL symbols

Thanks to the help of abrudz now PragmataPro has more consistent APL symbols

 

PragmataPro 0.826 APL symbols

 


 

— Minor improvements:

— Regular and Italic: improved the TrueType hinting

— all weights: ligatures are now more compatible with IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA

 


 

Log-in and download your updated files for free, if you purchased the license from this site.

Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.
Thank you!

 

With the Hiii Typography 2016 Merit Award, our Widiba institutional typeface won the third award!!!

2016-英文-专业 Hiii award winners

 

I like emoji.

I think them can help to communicate
—  quickly and
— without barriers of languages.

Probably I become old too soon but I don’t understand why emoji must be colorful and fill of small details above all when will be used at 9–14 pt size in every device.

For me emoji must be black and white and
designed to be used at very low sizes

FSD Emoji integrated in text

Do you think so?

If you think like me probably you can find interesting this page
or this dedicated blog

FSD Emoji on real life

 

Thanks to the numerous suggestions arrived, PragmataPro now is even a more complete professional typeface:

 

— Added Extra Bow Drawing symbols suggested by Dmtri Nesteruk

Some month ago Dmtri Nesteruk wrote me an email with a sketched good idea: to add a bullet to some used box drawing glyphs. The result is very interesting! By now  also a lot of graphic designers can be rethink the use of box drawing.

 

Milano Metro map text only

The entire map of the metro of Milan I redesigned using this exclusive box drawing method

Milano Metro map text only

Perfect also for text only diagramsdiagram using PragmataPro box drawing extra

 


 

— Added [FIXME] [TODO] [BUG] [NOTE] [HACK] [MARK] ligatures to emphasize important messages in command line

After all these notifications I suppose now has all the command line messages emphasized

Pragmata Pro command line messages ligatures

 


 

— Added all the icons of Nerd font

Nerd font contents a lot icons useful to Vim users. More info: http://nerdfonts.com/

nerd fonts combined with pragmatapro font

 


 

— Regular: improved the design of the entire Fullwidth and Halfwidth letters

PragmataPro can interact more better with other CJK fonts.

pragmatapro fullwidth alphabet

 


 

— Minors improvements:

Regular: added power symbols to Miscellaneous Technical set

all weights: improved the TrueType hinting above all for Microsoft Windows

all weights: added :<: :>: ligatures for Scala

all weights: added :) :-) :( :-( :D :P :3 ligatures for text chatting

 


Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.
Thank you!

 

Print Magazine Award Winner 2016The custom font I designed with jekyll & hide studio for Widiba bank was just awarded as Best Typeface Design 2016 in the section Typography and Lettering of the prestigious Print Magazine.

Thank you Print!

 

After the successful selling of Abitare Sans I decided to add and improve some glyphs

 

➊ Improvements

Almost all the design of the main Latin letters was changed to improve text readability. All is more proportional and harmonious now.
The design of the curly quotes are changed to be more recognizable in texts.
Question mark, and its derived glyphs, are now more condensed and inspired to the design of the traditional serif typefaces.
Abitare Sans now has a more sharp geometric outline.

 

Abitare Sans 1.06 changes

 


➋ Cyrillic set

Since v_1.06 Abitare Sans includes Cyrillic alphabet in all the 30 weights, both in Roman and Italic version.

 

Abitare Sans Cyrillic sample text

 


 

Thanks again for supporting my typographic projects!

 
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