Nicola
Commercial Type · Miguel Reyes
A robust, low-contrast Venetian serif from Miguel Reyes that channels Tommy Thompson's pencil renderings of Caslon back through the types of Nicolas Jenson.
About
A two-width family from Miguel Reyes that interprets the late fifteenth-century types of Nicolas Jenson through the hand-rendered Caslon studies in Tommy Thompson's 1946 manual How to Render Roman Letter Forms. Nicola Display covers fourteen styles from Thin to Black with matching italics, and Nicola adds a text companion with Regular, Regular No 2, Medium and Bold plus italics, giving editorial and identity systems an elegant but brash voice with simplified, almost slab-leaning details.
Classification
Commercial Type present Nicola as a robust, low-contrast take on Nicolas Jenson's late fifteenth-century Venetian types, filtered through Tommy Thompson's broad-tipped pencil renderings of Caslon from his 1946 manual How to Render Roman Letter Forms. The simplified details verge on slab serif.