Mark van Leeuwen
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Cortese Sans

Aespira is a gracious nod to classic roman titling typefaces. Taking inspiration from historic letterforms for its construction, the typeface also blends in novel and dynamic shapes. The combination of an oblique contrast system and gently flared strokes, gives the typeface a distinguishable liveliness, which is fully expressed in its more serif-like true italic.

The Display typeface features 2 styles: Roman and Italic. Its extended Latin character set features 636 Roman glyphs and 673 Italic glyphs, supports over 75 languages and includes a wide range contextual and stylistic alternates, lowercase and capital ligatures & more… The Italic style also features calligraphic alternates and a swash capital alphabet.

Cortese Sans Typeface

Cortese Sans is a sans serif responsible companion of Cortese, a 2023 reinterpretation of the seventies classic, Cortez, originally designed by Philip Kelly and published in 1977. While losing Cortese’s characteristic sharp serifs, Cortese Sans maintains the same geometric structure and raw attitude of its predecessor, as well as some signature design elements like its triangular dots.

The typeface features 5 upright styles: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold. Its extended Latin character set features over 1.200 glyphs, supports over 75 languages and includes a wide range of contextual and stylistic alternates, stylistic sets to with traditional punctuation & more…

Designed by Mark van Leeuwen

Spacing/Kerning: Sebastian Carewe
Engineering: Sebastian Carewe, Mark van Leeuwen

User Licence Agreement

Year: 2024

Trial Fonts Available on Request