AM Lombardia
CAST · Luciano Perondi, Carlotta Albiero · 2024
A digital revival of a 1941 Florentine metal type, redrawn by Luciano Perondi and Carlotta Albiero with added lowercase and alternates.
About
Originally patented by Pierallini, Turchi & Co. in Florence in 1941 and designed by graphic designer Egidio Bozzolo, Lombardia's all-caps condensed forms carry a strong 8-degree slant, high thick/thin contrast and a characteristic small curve at the central intersections of B, K and R. The digital revival closely follows the original metal type in its uppercase, figures and punctuation, while Perondi and Albiero extended it with lowercase letters modelled partly on the 1954 Spanish typeface Ilerda, plus alternate characters including the E and M variants present in Bozzolo's original. The result sits within CAST's Modernisti series, which collects revivals of Italian modernist-era type.
Classification
An all-caps condensed sans-serif with high thick/thin contrast and an 8-degree slant, characteristics that push it firmly into display territory rather than general-purpose sans-serif use.