Scotus Sans
CAST · Giulio Galli, Riccardo Olocco, Luciano Perondi · 2021
A humanist sans derived from the skeleton of the roman used by Octavianus Scotus in Venice in 1481, designed for long-form reading across print and screen.
About
Galli, Olocco and Perondi worked from the original Scotus roman, rationalising its letterforms into a low-contrast digital sans across nine weights and five widths, from Compressed to Extended, each with a matching italic. The 10-degree italic is slightly condensed and carries its own personality rather than functioning as a mere slant. The family draws a direct line from Johnston and Gill Sans while anchoring itself to a specific 15th-century model rather than a general humanist ideal.
Classification
Low-contrast humanist sans derived from the skeleton of a 15th-century Venetian roman, placing it firmly in the humanist sans tradition alongside Johnston and Gill Sans as acknowledged reference points.