Calisto® Font Family

Calisto® Regular (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Calisto® Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Calisto® Bold (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Calisto® Bold Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Calisto® Value Pack (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 94.00

Ron Carpenter – born 1950 in Dorking, England – type designer. 1967: works as a cartographer. 1968: trains in Monotype Corporation’s type department. 1976: works on the quality control of Monotype fonts. 1980: helps Robin Nicolas to design the italics for his Nimrod typeface. 1984: senior type designer of the Monotype Corporation. Designs supplementary weights of Times New Roman™. Fonts: Cantoria™ (1986), Calisto™, Amasis™ (1992), Dante™ (1993). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of [...]

The appeal of Calisto as a text face lies in its very even color on the page, while its robust construction means that it can work equally well at display sizes. The slightly calligraphic treatment of letter shapes and the classical proportions give Calisto a clean elegance on the page. The Calisto font is a graceful and interesting addition to the typographer's repertoire and will prove particularly useful for book, magazine and advertising work.