Postino™

Postino is the work of British designer Tim Donaldson, a quirky display type modeled roughly on the typewriter face Courier. Sturdy yet playful, Postino is aptly named with the Italian word for postman or courier. Skimming through a back issue of Visible Language (a journal about written language), Donaldson was impressed by the robust beauty of an emboldened Courier typeface. The book designer had used the face to make “cheeky little headlines and they looked superb.” Donaldson decided the world needed a typeface like this but one that “poked its tongue out” just a bit more, while still wearing its functional clothes. Postino is ideal for not-entirely-serious headlines, CD covers, children’s books, and advertising copy.

Postino is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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