Calenza Font Family
From Valencia's Streets to Contemporary Type
Born from the blue ceramic street signs of Valencia’s historic center, Calenza transforms a fragment of urban heritage into a contemporary type family designed for today’s graphic design needs.
What began as a collection of photographs taken while wandering through the streets of Valencia gradually evolved into a complete typographic system. The original plaques, created following a municipal competition in 1902 to improve street-name legibility, revealed a unique balance between functionality, personality, and visual impact.
Rather than reproducing the plaques literally, Calenza reinterprets their spirit through a versatile family designed for branding, editorial design, signage, packaging, posters, and digital environments.
+ Calenza POster
From refined text settings to expressive display typography, the specimen presents the full range of Calenza through real-world applications, character sets, and design features.
(PDF specimen 50 pages – 10 Mo)
Calenza Poster
The Expressive style
Calenza Poster : The most expressive side of the family
Inspired by the unusual letterforms and rare variations discovered during the research process, Calenza Poster gathers the exceptions that didn’t belong in the core family but were too interesting to leave behind.
Perfect for headlines, posters, music festivals, branding, packaging, and cultural projects.
Demo Download
Download a free trial version of Calenza for evaluation and testing purposes. Calenza Demo is publicly available for evaluation, educational purposes, and AI-assisted design experiments.
Calenza Demo is a free trial version intended for evaluation purposes only. It includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, circled figures, small capitals, and essential punctuation, allowing you to test the typeface in real design conditions. Many language extensions, symbols, and advanced OpenType features have been removed. For the complete character set, multilingual support, and full functionality, please purchase a commercial license.
About Calenza font family
Designer Olivier Gourvat
Spacing and kerning Igino Marini
Glyphs 616 characters and 1166 glyphs – 7522 Kerning pairs per styles
Version 1.000
Formats OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Available in variable format
220 languages supported
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian Romanization, Cape Verdean, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Chinese Pinyin, Cimbrian, Cofan, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folks- praak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean, Gwichin, Haitian Creole, Han, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcak, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istroromanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jerriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino Sine, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Marquesan, Meglenoromanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinhpatha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Nde-bele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Qeqchi, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari, Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sar- dinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian Lower, Sorbian Upper, Sotho Northern, Sotho Southern, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Tur- kish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Voro, Wallisian, Wal- loon, Waraywaray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wikmungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
Localizations
Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh, Marshallese, Romanian; Moldova, Dutch, Romanian, Tatar and Turkish.
OpenType Features
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