Introduction

Brioso® Pro is a typeface family designed in the calligraphic tradition of our Latin alphabet.

Brioso blends the humanity of written forms with the clarity of digital design, allowing type users to set pages of refined elegance.

Named after the Italian word for "lively," words set in Brioso moves rhythmically across the page with an energy that is tempered by an ordered structure and lucid form.

Designed for Adobe in 2003,

Brioso Pro is inspired by

Rennaisance calligraphy

It can be used anywhere one wants to convey a sense of spontaneity and sophistication.

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Numbers & Glyphs

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Brioso Pro's large glyph complement was designed to further meet the exacting requirements of professional typographers and designers throughout the world. Its diverse glyph complement includes such typographic niceties as swash capitals, small capitals, oldstyle ligatures, ornaments, alternate forms, international monetary symbols, and an expanded set of mathematical symbols.

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Calligraphy

Type Anatomy

The various weights and optical sizes can be compared to the calligrapher's use of different-width pen nib widths to produce letters of varied weight and size.