Ciffont type design

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I designed Ciffont during the Type Design Course held by Professor Antonio D'Elisiis at ISIA Faenza in 2022-23, for the Master Degree in Communication Design.
Ciffont is a contemporary reinterpretation of "Cissarz Latein", a font which I found inside the volume of German miscellaneous graphic arts kept in the Museum of Industrial Heritage in Bologna. The museum stores a collection of publications of various types; it is an important archive of publishing products, which accompanies the collection of printing presses from past centuries, and documents the evolution of typography.

There is only one version of the Cissarz Latein font, mainly used for medium-sized texts and titles. It is a very distinctive serif font, designed in 1912 and influenced by tendencies of the time in between Art Noveau and Art Deco, but possessing unusual and rather bold geometric strokes.

Cissarz Latein was designed by Johann Vincenz Cissarz, a German architect, illustrator and designer who was born in 1873 and died in 1942. Cissarz designed this font for Ludwig & Mayer, a German foundry.

Johann Vincenz Cissarz studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden from 1891 to 1896. After creating monumental altarpieces and murals, he turned to book illustration and poster design and from 1899 began designing furniture and wallpaper. His typographic work on the catalogues for the 1904-1905 exhibitions of the Darmstadt Artists' Coloby, and his posters and advertisements for Bad Nauheim in 1904 are considered important for the history of modern poster design.

The published illustrations are posters designed by Johann Vincenz Cissarz for Darmstadt and Deutsche Kuntz, in 1904 and 1906.