Scrittura Corsiva
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Italica, a calligraphic font by Monica Dengo

Italica is an OpenType font inspired by the Italian 15th century writing tradition.
A digital, typographical character, it reproduces the Italics-style alphabet Monica Dengo developed to teach children how to write easily and with confidence.

Italica has the same simple, natural strokes as the original, hand-written version.

We produced the font mostly to help teachers provide proper handwritten material..

A practical, versatile tool, it was designed to be used in tandem with the teacher’s own handwriting and especially for producing texts that children can copy. A user-friendly font, it works on Mac and PC as well as on all major text creation, editing and lay-out programs.

Handwriting versus typographic uniformity

The fonts in OpenType format, which have been on the market for about ten years, can contain advanced typographic functions that allow you to obtain particular effects, useful for the construction of calligraphic alphabets. Effects that can make a typeface that wants to reproduce handwriting appear more fluid and spontaneous.

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A font that can write in cursive

When we started our writing project at the Istituto Comprensivo di Terranuova Bracciolini, in Arezzo Italy, the idea was to write everything by hand. However, we realized that producing by hand all the necessary materials was impractical. So we decided to make Italica, a digital font.

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