CAST — Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici — Bolzano, Italy
“In designing Sole Sans, we took our inspiration from the San Serif lettering of English 18th-century neo-classical architects such as George Dance. The Caslon Foundry (1816), Thorowgood (1832) and Figgins (1833) were also influences. All these faces show uppercase only, rather crude and heavy, with ungainly curves that seem to be produced by a blunt tool. The strokes have a...