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Maestro - Maestro Pro
$110.40
Opentype OTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Pro Bold
$110.40
Opentype OTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro A
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro A Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro B
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro B Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro C
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro C Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro D
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro D Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro E
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro E Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro F
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro F Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro G Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro L Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro G
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro H
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro H Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro I
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro I Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro J
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro J Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro K
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro K Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro L
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro M
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ends 1
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ends 1 Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ends
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ends 2 Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Borders
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Borders Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Extras
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Extras Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ligatures
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Ligatures Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Flourishes
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Flourishes Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Maestro Rules Bold
$20.80
Truetype TTF / Mac & PC Compatible
Maestro - Full Set
$190.40
Above Weights / Mac & PC Compatible

ABOUT THIS FONT FAMILY

Foundry: Canada Type

The Maestro family consists of forty fonts distributed over two weights. The OpenType version compresses the family considerably down to two fonts, regular and bold, each containing the entire character set of twenty fonts, for a total of more than 3350 characters per font. These include a wide variety of stylistic alternates, ligatures, beginning and ending letters, flourishes, borders, rules, and other extras. The Pro version also includes extended linguistic support for Latin-based scripts (Western, Central and Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish, Welsh/Celtic, Maltese) as well as Greek. Maestro takes its cue from the Italian chancery cursive of the early sixteenth century. By this time type ruled the publishing world, but official court documents were still presented in calligraphy, in a new formal style of the high Renaissance that was integrated with Roman letters and matched the refined order of type. The copybooks of Arrighi and others, printed from engraved wood blocks, spread the Italian cancellaresca across Europe, but the medium was too clumsy and the size too small to show what was really happening in the stroke. Arrighi and others also made metal fonts that pushed type in the direction of calligraphy, but again the medium did not support the superb artistry of these masters or sustain the vitality in their work. As the elegant sensitive moving stroke of the broad pen was reduced to a static outline, the human quality, the variety and the excitement of a living act were lost. Because the high level of skill could not be reproduced, the broad pen was largely replaced by the pointed tool. The modern italic handwriting revival is based on a simplified model and does not approach the level of this formal calligraphy with its relationship to the Roman forms.

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