AA
Black & White
Carmina

Information

A personal calligraphic series commissioned by Bitstream from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse’s unique calligraphic spirit is still quite visible in the family’s letterforms. This is not surprising, as all of Zapf von Hesse’s typefaces are calligraphic in nature. Yet Carmina BT is suitable for almost any conceivable digital text application, from book design up through signage use.

Technical Information

  • Designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
  • Styles 8
  • Glyph Count 261
  • Released 1986

OpenType Features

Supported languages

Afar, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asu, Bemba, Bena, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Corsican, Danish, Taita, German, English, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Filipino, Faroese, French, Friulian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Swiss German, Gusii, Manx, Interlingua, Indonesian, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Lojban, Machame, Jju, Makonde, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Shambala, Kurdish, Cornish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Ligurian, Luo, Luyia, Morisyen, Malagasy, Makhuwa-Meetto, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, North Ndebele, Low German, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, South Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Portuguese, Romansh, Rundi, Rombo, Kinyarwanda, Rwa, Samburu, Sangu, Sardinian, Sena, Sango, Sidamo, Slovenian, Southern Sami, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Swati, Saho, Southern Sotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Teso, Tswana, Turkish, Taroko, Tsonga, Volapük, Vunjo, Walloon, Warlpiri, Xhosa, Soga, Zulu

Buying Guide

We offer the possibility of buying individual styles as well as complete families, with a link to the official Monotype Website.

Overview
Carmina
36 px

Carmina Light

Carmina Light Italic

Carmina Medium

Carmina Medium Italic

Carmina Bold

Carmina Bold Italic

Carmina Black

Carmina Black Italic

Carmina Light
80 px

Carmina
BT

Columns
Carmina Light

A personal calligraphic series commissioned by Bitstream from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse’s unique calligraphic spirit is still quite visible in the family’s letterforms.

This is not surprising, as all of Zapf von Hesse’s typefaces are calligraphic in nature. Yet Carmina BT is suitable for almost any conceivable digital text application, from book design up through signage use.

Carmina
40 px

A personal calligraphic series commissioned by Bitstream from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse’s unique calligraphic spirit is still quite visible in the family’s letterforms.

Character Overview
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Uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Uppercase Accents
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝ
Lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Lowercase Accents
àáâãäåæçèéêìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüý
Numerals
0123456789
Punctuations & Symbols
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