"Infused with history, the slab cannot help but suggest the old West's frontier clichés, for such ephemera as classic wanted posters, political broadsides, cautionary warning signs, and more generic commercial applications. Cattivo is a brand-new 18-font family that, when used in any weight and size, cuts through nostalgic predictability and provides a welcome alternative to such popular Egyptian-style slab serifs as Stymie and Memphis."
"designer Moritz Kleinsorge has provided more than enough opportunities to transcend the aesthetic expectations of a slab. Within each font there are also individual letters that are subtly tweaked to give Cattivo a hand-cut or hand-drawn sensibility. There are no perfectly uniform lines in caps or lowercase. Rather certain nuanced exaggerations give every setting from Cattivo Thin to Cattivo Light, roman and italic, the appearance that these letters are produced by human digits, not a digital program."
"There are other eccentric traits that can be inducements for using Cattivo in large point sizes: The lowercase "i" and "v" in Extra Bold and Black are my favorite letters. The dot on the "i" is a square that appears to be glued or nailed on yet ready to fall off at the slightest jiggle. And what can I say other than the "v" in all weights is a perfectly rendered vessel."
Cattivo is an 18-font slab serif family that cuts through nostalgic predictability and provides an alternative to Egyptian-style slab serifs such as Stymie and Memphis. Designer Moritz Kleinsorge supplied numerous mix-and-match options to transcend conventional slab aesthetics. Individual letters are subtly tweaked to evoke a hand-cut or hand-drawn sensibility, avoiding perfectly uniform lines in both caps and lowercase. Nuanced exaggerations across weights and styles create the impression of letters produced by human digits rather than a digital program. Distinctive display traits include a square dot on the lowercase "i" and a sculpted "v." The name translates from Italian as "bad" or "evil" and aligns with Spaghetti Western visual cues through horizontal stress, sleek curves, and contemporary proportions.
Read at I Love Typography Ltd
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