Aldo Novarese

In 1935 he joined the Design Studio of The Nebiolo Foundry in Turin where he collaborated with Alessandro Butti on faces such as Athenaeum, Quirinus, Normandia, Augustea, Microgramma, Fluidum and Rondine.

Aldo Novarese published an Italian classification of typefaces which he presented at the “Ecole de Lure”.

This work, which deserved the favourable opinion of international criticism, illustrates the Italian viewpoint on such a long-debated subject.

[1] Aldo Novarese retired from Nebiolo in 1972 and spent almost two years as a consultant of Reber R41, a dry transfer producer; after that period, while keeping his close relationship with Reber R41 he started his career as a freelance type designer and worked all over the world for important companies such as Tygra, ITC, VCG, Mecanorma, Berthold.

Novarese designed more than a hundred typefaces, at the beginning for the Fonderia Nebiolo in Turin -Italy, then for dry transfer companies such as Reber R41 and Mecanorma, phototype industries and traditional Foundries such VCG, ITC Tygra, Berthold and more.