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Manicotti

Inspired by the boisterous wood types of the nineteenth century, Manicotti pushes the reversed-stress French Clarendon style to its decorative extreme. Its thick tops and bottoms and massive slab serifs create an oddly dense typographic texture that is reminiscent of Spaghetti Western films, rugged trails and rowdy saloons. Honored by the Type Directors Club in 2007.


Manicotti showing

Features

Contextual Alternates

Contextual alternates: When kerning isn’t enough, Manicotti uses contextual alternates to improve certain letter combinations.

Contextual Alternates

Case-sensitive punctuation: In all-caps settings, Manicotti repositions quotes and resizes brackets.

Discretionary ligatures

Discretionary ligatures: Decorative TT and OO ligatures help mix things up a little.

Unicase

Unicase: Can’t decide between uppercase and lowercase? Stylistic Set 1 substitutes unicase alternates.

Swash

Swash alternates & snap-on swashes: Manicotti contains a set of decorative swash alternates, and some ending swashes are found in Stylistic Set 2. Additionally, a collection of snap-on swashes is acessible through the Ornaments feature.

Ampersand

Roman ampersand: Stylistic Set 3 substitutes the default ampersand with a more traditional alternate.

Ornaments

Roman ampersand: Manicotti comes with a bunch of ornaments, including dingbats, arrows, and pointing hands.

Glyphs

Manicotti glyphs

Licensing info

Licenses for Manicotti are now available for purchase on MyFonts. Of course, feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.