What is the Beatrix Antiqua font?

Beatrix Antiqua is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Francesco Canovaro. Beatrix Antiqua is part of the Beatrix Family that takes its inspiration from the classic Roman monumental capital model: its capitals are directly derived from the stone carvings in Florence Santa Croce Cathedral - where the serifs are often removed while keeping the variable width strokes. So, even if it’s basically a sans-serif, Beatrix keeps a subtle swelling at the terminals suggesting a glyphic serif - in the same vein as Herman Zapf classic Optima typeface. In the lowercase design, Beatrix references early humanist typefaces, keeping small calligraphic details (as the prolongation of the e nose) that are especially visible in the italics. While Beatrix Antiqua, the companion typeface to Florentia, slightly exaggerates its antique stylistical features, Florentia tries to mix those influence with a more robust & digital age ready design, featuring bigger X-height and an extended character set that covers over forty languages using the latin alphabet, as well as Greek and Russian Cyrillic.

Beatrix Antiqua Font families

The Beatrix Antiqua includes the following font families:

• Beatrix Antiqua Thin
• Beatrix Antiqua Thin Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua Light
• Beatrix Antiqua Light Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua Regular
• Beatrix Antiqua Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua Medium
• Beatrix Antiqua Medium Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua SemiBold
• Beatrix Antiqua SemiBold Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua Bold
• Beatrix Antiqua Bold Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua ExtraBold
• Beatrix Antiqua ExtraBold Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua Black
• Beatrix Antiqua Black Italic
• Beatrix Antiqua ExtraBlack
• Beatrix Antiqua ExtraBlack Italic

Beatrix Antiqua Preview

Here is a preview of how Beatrix Antiqua will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.