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Luminari

Designed by Philip Bouwsma, Luminari is a display font published by Canada Type.

Philip Bouwsma returns with yet another great manifestation of historical calligraphy.

Luminari is an amalgam of High Middle Ages writing, a blend that combines the ornate Church hands with the simple Carolingian from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Its majuscules are particularly influenced by the versals found in the famous Monmouth psalters, as well as those done by the Ramsey Abbey abbots in the twelfth century. The minuscules also exhibit some influence from the book hand of prolific humanist Poggio Bracciolini from the early fifteenth century. Italian and essentially romanesque in style, Luminari exercises a slight tension between the round forms and the angular “gothic” styling.

Luminari was updated with plenty of alternates and expanded language support in 2012, then again in 2017. It now supports a very wide range of codepages, including Cyrillic, Greek, Central and Eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Vietnamese, and of course Celtic/Welsh.

Foundry Canada Type
Fonts 1
Price $29.95
Released 2010
Style Display
Designer Philip Bouwsma

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