Dico
Bold Monday · Pieter van Rosmalen, Diana Ovezea, Jacques Le Bailly · 2004
A suite of eight sub-families by Pieter van Rosmalen, built around a compact humanist sans originally drawn in 2004 for Teldesign and expanded to 45 fonts spanning slab, monospaced, code and typewriter variants.
About
Compact proportions and open, restrained letterforms define the core sans, which gains warmth through its swinging italics and a rounded Soft variant. The family extends into proportional and monospaced slab cuts, two Code variants with swapped defaults and alternative letterforms for coding clarity, and a Typewriter subfamily offering roughened mono versions of the Sans, Slab and Script. Monospaced script styles loosely based on the Corinthian Script for the IBM Selectric add a further, more playful register to the system.
Classification
The core family is a compact, open sans-serif with warm, friendly letterforms and swinging italics, characteristics consistent with humanist sans design. The suite expands into slab, monospaced and script sub-families, but the proportional sans forms the structural and tonal centre.