Base
A typeface designed by Franco Cervi.
A typeface designed by Franco Cervi.
The Base project is composed of: a new typeface developed on a booklet in a limited edition of 150 individually numbered copies; a poster in a limited edition of 300 copies; a series of three artistic screen-prints, each in a limited edition of 20 copies individually numbered, signed and watermarked.
Base is a typeface designed by Franco Cervi that sums up his original creative vision: a minimalist approach, formal rigor and an aptitude for experimentation.
This booklet, besides showing the complete set of the designed characters – including glyphs – also illustrates their graphic personality in an elegant way, the refined constructive anatomy, the geometric ratios that generate the kerning. The appendix contains four brilliant meta-graphic applications.
– Roberta Danisi
Getting on Base! Visual Arts critic Steven Heller talks with Franco Cervi about his typeface Base.
Click here to read the interview (printmag.com).
Base Booklet
Base Booklet, cover
Base Booklet, complete character set
Base Booklet, sizes
Base Booklet, anatomy
Base Booklet, alignments and kerning
Base Booklet, limited edition poster
Base Booklet, limited edition screen-prints
Base Booklet, limited edition screen-prints
Base Poster
Alias: artistic screen-print in a limited edition of 20 pieces individually numbered and signed
