Reaching a total of more than 1000 glyphs, Breathe
Pro is Maximiliano R. Sproviero's gift of the
year. The aim of the designer was once more to
give the user the chance to play and travel from
very formal and conservative letterforms to the
amazing world of swashes and flourishes.
Possibilities of alternating and ligating
characters in this font are absolutely fantastic.
After his last creation, Parfait Script,
Li�n wanted to make a more universal font.
Delighted by typographic works of Didot and his
followers of the beginnings of 1800, Maximiliano
R. Sproviero started what became another obsessive
project, which is now named Breathe, "cuando las
letras respiran..." what could be translated as
"when letters breathe", due to the feeling that
you are reading letters that are alive.
Breathe comes in two styles which have a
significant difference as regards to the quantity
of glyphs available inside. If you want to get the
most complete style, with over 1000 glyphs,
(including contextual alternates, stylistic
alternates, swashes, terminal forms, titling
alternates, historical forms, stylistic sets,
standard ligatures, stylistic ligatures,
decorative ligatures and frames) then your choice
should be Breathe Pro. On the other hand, if you
are interested in having a less decorative font
with the nice touch of Li�n's style, then your
choice should be Breathe Standard, a more limited
version of Breathe, including terminal forms
(leaves) and frames.
With Breathe Pro you will surely have fun at
the same time you are designing and that is not an
unimportant thing. The world of type-designers is
growing each year, and the features of Open-Type
are letting them think their creations as if they
were truly pieces of art. At least, Breathe Pro is
inspired in the Art of our predecessors, those who
with a pen loaded of ink would decorate each
letter, each page in such a lovely way. Yes,
-lovely- is the word. We would not have the
amazing lettering artists, calligraphers,
typographers of nowadays if that -love for
letters- had not traveled from generation to
generation. Breathe Pro is an example of this
love. An example of what I feel about typography
and letters.