Spira Font

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Spira 110R, Proto-Roman cut in Venice by Johannes de Spira for Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares in 1469 and used until 1473 by his brother Wendelinus. Type design workshop at ENSBA Lyon and Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, March 2017.

Spira font is a part of Gothico Antiqua project. 15th century types between gothic and roman. In parallel to historical research, Rafael Ribas & Alexis Faudot, current researchers at ANRT, produced fourteen fonts and one set of initial letters.