Designed by Valentina Casali
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This font review was written in English and translated into Portuguese (BR—below). Portuguese makes use of five diacritics: the cedilla (ç), acute accent (á, é, í, ó, ú), circumflex accent (â, ê, ô), tilde (ã, õ), and grave accent (à) to mark the contraction of two consecutive vowels in adjacent words (crasis).

Valentina has been on my radar for a while. It’s no secret how much I hate working on connected scripts, so I will forever be amazed by people who can do it well. Combine that with gorgeous ornamental lettering and sharp letter carvings, and you would be crazy not to watch her work. First, was Pritzious, conceived during the Type Design Expert Class at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp (2021–2022), and now she is back with AM Majella—a revival of the homonymous wood typeface, Majella (released by Xilografia di Verona between 1937-1939).
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