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.
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.
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.
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.
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 72font-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:
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 20, ‘wdth’ 90;}
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 30, ‘wdth’ 110;}
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 300; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 18, ‘wdth’ 80;}
{font-family: ‘Nure’; font-weight: 240; font-variation-settings: ‘opsz’ 18, ‘wdth’ 80;}
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!
The oook™ variable font project was improved in these days because it’s full of potentiality.
Ideal for branding
Now this extraordinary variable font and its OpenType features is also a perfect tool for the branding of companies and corporations.
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!
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.
— 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
— Extended the range of ligatures
Ligatures helps a lot the programmers. Now the help is increased!
— 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!
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!
— 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.
Click here to see the entire HTML 5 list set in PragmataPro™
— Comodore 64 nostalgia?
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
I love the design of Runic letters and, after the request of a user, I’ve added them with pleasure to PragmataPro
PragmataPro Runic is the first monospaced Runic of all time
— 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
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 Arabic with accents
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!
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
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
With 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
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
In all the weights of all the versions.
— Enabled 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
Marks 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!
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.
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 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 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
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. ❤️
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)!
— Harmonized APL symbols
Thanks to the help of abrudz now PragmataPro has more consistent 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!!!
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
— 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.
The entire map of the metro of Milan I redesigned using this exclusive box drawing method
Perfect also for text only diagrams
— 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
— Added all the icons of Nerd font
Nerd font contents a lot icons useful to Vim users. More info: http://nerdfonts.com/
— Regular: improved the design of the entire Fullwidth and Halfwidth letters
PragmataPro can interact more better with other CJK fonts.
— 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!
The 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.
➋ Cyrillic set
Since v_1.06 Abitare Sans includes Cyrillic alphabet in all the 30 weights, both in Roman and Italic version.
Thanks again for supporting my typographic projects!
all weights: Ligatures are now Contextual Alternates OpenType features to obtain more compatibility with the most part of Text Editors
all weights: added these important ligatures for Scala programming:
## ++= -+- -\/ \/- <~< <==> =/= ??? |-> |--> |=> |==>
all weights: improved the design of these ligatures:
<!-- <-- -->
all weights: added ligatures to emphasize important message in command line
[INFO] [WARNING] [FATAL] [ERROR] [TRACE] [DEBUG] [WARN] [ERR]
(thanks to Kim Silkebækken for this cool idea!)
Regular: improved the hinting of numerous glyphs like x, s, twosuperior, threesuperior, questiondown
Regular: improved the design of some math operators
emptyset, intersection, union, multiset, multisetmultiplication, multisetunion, plus.circled, minus.circled, multiply.circled, fraction.circled, operator.circled, ringoperator.circled, asteriskoperator.circled, equals.circled, dash.circled, squaredplus, squaredminus, squaredtimes, squareddotoperator, logicalnotReversed, turnedNotSign, blackDiamond, whiteDiamond, blackDiamond, whiteDiamond, supersetBesideSubset, supersetBesideAndJoinedByDashWithSubset, doubleStrokeNotSign, reversedDoubleStrokeNotSign, logicalnot
(thanks to Miëtek Bak for the important support!)
Please visit PragmataPro page for more infos
A command line chart system based on Unicode glyphs
Today I released on GitHub my idea of a trading chart based on Terminal or other command line applications.
The mixing of volumes data and prices data:
│ (Unicode U+2502) = small volumes
┃ (Unicode U+2503) = medium volumes
█ (Unicode U+2588) = big volumes
Red and green colors are used to have a more clear idea visually of the percentage of selling and buying contracts referred on a defined time.
The simplification of the chart through a small grid helps to find the right moment for investing.
Feel free to contact me if you are interested in using this unprecedented chart system
Feedbacks are welcome
Three important reached goals and changes in the version 0.823 of PragmataPro:
➊ Completion of Math support!
It seems impossible to me but it’s really happens
➋ Arabic alphabet improved
PragmataPro now it’s more Kufi style to improve the readability at low sizes
➌ Hebrew alphabet improved
and added important glyphs in the Unicode Alphabetic Presentation Form set
Last but not least:
* Regular: improved the design of many Math symbols
/universal now has an alternative version available using OpenType ss12 feature
/emptyset now has an alternative version available using OpenType ss13 feature
* all weights: now PragmataPro is completely compatible with IntelliJ IDEA software
* all weights: removed U+3000-303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation set
to avoid conflicts with other CJK fonts
* all weights: added the greek glyphs useful for LaTeX /Digamma and /digamma
* Regular: improved the hinting of Latin sets glyphs
* Regular: added the missing subscript and superscript Latin and Greek small letters,
available using OpenType feature “sinf” “sups”
* all weights: now Braille alphabet haven’t helpers lines
to use the Braille alphabet with helpers line use
OpenType Stylistic Set 11 “ss11” feature
* all weights: added these important ligatures:
<--- <!-- --> :=> <->
* Regular: added and improved the design of the glyphs for Computer User Interface
http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_user_interface_icons.html
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!
There are a lot of changes in the version 0.822 of PragmataPro:
➊ Perfect integration with CJK fonts and Emoji
All the glyphs are been scaled to exactly 0.5 em² wide (= 1024-unit em) so they are compatible with CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters, where every character are exactly 1 em² wide (= 2048 unit)
➋ All the arrows, planned by Unicode until now, are been designed
PragmataPro is now the first modular/monospaced font of the history that includes all these arrows.
You can see all from my Github repository named ‘Arrow Finder’
➌ Towards completion of Math support
It’s been improved the design of U+2200 – U+22FF Mathematical Operators set
added the U+2980 – U+29FF Misc. Mathematical Symbols-B set
added the U+2A00 – U+2AFF Supplemental Math Operators set
under the precious supervision of Pierre Le Marre
➍ New ligatures for functional programming languages
The design of ligatures that includes < and > is changed
Added a lot of new ligatures to improve the programming in Haskell, Scala, Swift … in all the weights available
Feel free to contact me directly or notify an issue via Github to improve PragmataPro again and again.
Thank you!