Features

Contextual alternates: Wood type is notorious for its poor kerning, inconsistent spacing, and uneven typographic color. While Manicotti’s letterforms are reminiscent of wood type, its color and rhythm are decidedly digital. Manicotti uses contextual alternates to solve awkward letter combinations when kerning pairs are not enough. These mostly involve the T and L, whose serifs are subtly shaved off to accommodate a tighter fit with a neighboring letter.

Unicase: Can’t decide between uppercase and lowercase? Now you don’t have to! Stylistic set 1 has unicase alternates.

Swash: Sometimes, even a novelty face isn’t decorative enough. Turn on swashes and end swashes (Stylistic set 2) to really go over the top.

Discretionary ligatures: These uppercase ligatures are just around to mix things up a little.

Short L: Make your L’s a little shorter with Stylistic set 3.

Short IJ: Sprecht u Nederlands? I don’t, but if you do, try out the tighter-fitting IJ available in Stylistic set 4.

Glyphs