Recta
designed by Aldo Novarese in 1959
Recta was born in 1959 from the pen of Aldo Novarese for the Nebiolo Fonderia of Turin and is considered one of the first contributions of the great Italian type designer to the massive wave of the European sans serif genre in full explosion in that half of the 20th century.
Initially published just a year after the release of the Swiss Neue Haas Grotesk and the French Univers, it rode the wave of enormous success of the "sans serif" genre, becoming the Italian Helvetica par excellence.
The softness of the line with an exquisitely "humanistic" touch in contrast with the clear forms typical of the grotesk genre are the distinctive characteristics of Recta, originally conceived in countless variations that were never created due to the unsustainable cost it would have entailed as a font for traditional printing. ;
The Recta family
Recta Round
Recta Tonda Book
Recta Tonda Light
Recta Tonda Regular
Recta Tonda Medium
Recta Tonda Bold
Recta Tonda Extrabold
Recta Tonda Heavy
Recta Tonda Family Bundle
Recta Italic Round
Recta Italic Tonda Light
Recta Italic Tonda Book
Recta Italic Round Regular
Recta Italic Round Medium
Recta Italic Round Bold
Recta Italic Round Extrabold
Recta Italic Round Heavy
Recta Italic Tonda Family
Bundles
Recta Condensed
Recta Stretta Light
Recta Stretta Book
Recta Narrow Regular
Recta Narrow Medium
Recta Narrow Bold
Recta Narrow Heavy
Straight Straight Extrabold
Recta Stretta Family Bundle
Recta Condensed Italic
Recta Italic Stretta Light
Recta Italic Stretta Book
Recta Italic Narrow Regular
Recta Italic Narrow Medium
Recta Italic Narrow Bold
Recta Italic Narrow Extrabold
Recta Italic Narrow Heavy
Recta Italic Stretta Full Family
Recta Compressed
Recta Strettissima Neretta
Recta Strettissima Medium
Recta Strettissima Regular
Recta Strettissima Extrabold
Recta Strettissima Nerissima
Recta Strettissima Full Family
Recta Compressed Italic
Recta Italic Strettissima Medium
Recta Italic Strettissima Black
Recta Italic Strettissima Neretta
Recta Italic Strettissima Extrabold
Recta Italic Strettissima Nerissima
Recta Italic Strettissima Full Family
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Recta in the history of Italian Typography