EP. 01 – Resistenza Type

Established between Turin and Valencia, Resistenza Type is the design match between Giuseppe Salerno’s calligraphic experience and Paco González’s design approach.

Resistenza fonts flawlessly translate the spontaneous nature of lettering into typography. Maybe this is the real resistance: opting for an analog approach to font creation, going against the grain of an increasingly mechanical and post-modernist type design market.

The common thread running through all Resistenza’s productions is a complete escape from anonymity: all the fonts published have a distinct flavour, which makes them ready to be used in specific projects or brand identities. This is confirmed by the case of Mina, a monoline handscript font used for the title of Speak Now, Taylor Swift’s third album released in 2010.

An extensive catalog, with more than 90 typeface families, reminiscent of the variety offered by foundries such as Emigre, without compromising the high quality standards that Resistenza offers. An abundance of handscript fonts leaves room for a number of successful serif fonts such as Sidera and Norman, as well as some undoubtedly unique sans serif fonts.

The calligraphic imprinting also echoes consistently in sans serif fonts like Squadra, where the terminals and inktraps maintain a look reminiscent of the counterpoint of a stub nib. Squadra is probably one of the most interesting fonts in the foundry, as it perfectly sums up Resistenza’s approach to design.

Starting from a declared inspiration from Butti and Novarese’s Eurostile, Squadra achieves a unique translation of mid-20th-century geometric fonts, extending to a family of nine weights for both Roman and Italic. Even more unique is the Stencil version of Squadra, characterized by round, organic cuts creating a distinctive paragraph texture, somehow even more natural than its original version.