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Attention!

We highly recommend to buy the extensive OpenType version, Costa PTF. See Upgrades to OpenType version.

Costa

The Costa typeface family began life in 1999 as a corporate typeface for Costa Crociere, an Italian cruise company who still use it for many of their communication needs. The objective was to develop a typeface that allowed all of the material to be easily recognisable despite various stylesheets and layouts. The style of typeface came from the ligatured logotype Costa designed by Landor Associates in 1999. The immediate answer was to design disconnected letters and to add some unusual glyphs such as k, v or E in order to give a unique colour to the text. The idea was to create a sort of mediterranean style of typeface. Using the structure of a somewhat modernised Italian Chancery script to which only the ending serif remained. The serif being more of a flourish creating contrast and referencing the more exotic countries such as those which Costa Crociere present in their catalogs. Costa ptf is a style without neutrality and doesn’t fit comfortably into any typeface classification – this proves to be the novelty of its design as well as guaranteeing its originality.

Upgrades to OpenType Ptf version

Upgrades from OpenType Std to OpenType Ptf

TDC2 2000 winner!

Our Costa custom font family that we design for the Costa Crociere win an certificate of Excellence in Type Design during the TDC2 2000 competition (24 January 2000).

Typographica 2004

Among the typefaces chosen as Our Favourite Typefaces of 2004 by the on-line journal Typographica.

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