Francesco Torniello da Novara (c. 1490 – 1589) was a Milanese typographer, writer and Franciscan friar who became known for applying geometric specifications to Latin capital letters fonts.

[1] Torniello's works were focused on adopting the Latin alphabet inscriptions as original as possible, while simultaneously improving their geometric conditions.

[1] These fonts were not then designed for usage in the printing press, but as a model for artistic inscriptions.

[1] In his work Opera del modo de fare le littere maiuscole antique, which was printed in 1517, Torniello enriched, calligraphically and geometrically, previously-existing fonts.

[1] In order to broaden the usage of his fonts in non-Latin texts Torniello added the letter "Z".