F2F Madame Butterfly™ Font Family

F2F Madame Butterfly™ Regular (TakeType Collection) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 39.00

Italian designer Alessio Leonardi creates experimental typefaces that capture the Zeitgeist of the 1990s, and are full of charm and wit to boot! More about the fonts: F2F Al Retto™ Like a game of Tertis gone awry, Alessio Leonardi’s F2F Al Retto is an alphabet full of boxy, outlined squares that seem to move across lines of text. This typeface should be set large, so that its subtle movement-like qualities may best be observed. F2F Allineato™ A double wavy outline roughly defines [...]

Italian designer Alessio Leonardi created the following fonts: F2F Al Retto™ (1996), F2F Allineato™ (1995), F2F CoolWool™ (1994), HaManga Irregular™ (1994), F2F Madame Butterfly™ (1996), F2F Mekanik Amente™ (1993), F2F Mekkaso Tomanik™ (1994), F2F Metamorfosi™ (1995), F2F Poison Flowers™ (1994), F2F Prototipa Multipla™ (1996), F2F Provinciali™ (1995), F2F Tagliatelle Sugo™ (1996), F2F Ale™ (1994), F2F Simbolico™ (1994). Take a look at the personal designer portrait of Alessio Leonardi.

The techno sound of the 1990s, a personal computer, font creation software, and some inspiration all came together to inspire the F2F (Face2Face) font series. Alessio Leonardi and his friends had the demand to create new unusual typefaces, which would be used in the leading German techno magazine of the day, Frontpage. Even typeset as small as 6-points, in nearly undecipherable layouts, it was a pleasure for the kids to read and try to decrypt the messages.

F2F Madame Butterfly is a font with a heavy, or dark, appearance. The darkness is brought about by the overlapping bits of glyph forms that make up each letter in the typeface.