Carmen

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Carmen Regular
Carmen Regular
CARMEN
Carmen Italic
Carmen Italic
«L’amour est un oiseau rebelle que nul ne peut apprivoiser et c’est bien en vain qu’on l’appelle, s’il lui convient de refuser»
Carmen Black
Carmen Black
Her eyes were deep black
Carmen Regular
Carmen Regular
Carmen es un relato universal que narra la historia de amor, celos y muerte entre el militar Don José y la gitana Carmen que su autor –Mérimée–, trasmutado en viajero por la pintoresca Andalucía del XIX, hizo inmortal. El relato emana una manifiesta fascinación por esa España fantástica, a medio camino entre lo exótico y lo salvaje, que tanto sugestionó a los viajeros y artistas que se adentraban para conocer sus costumbres y paisajes.
Carmen Medium
Carmen Medium
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Carmen Italic
Carmen Italic
The music of Carmen has since been widely acclaimed for brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere, and orchestration, and for the skill with which Bizet musically represented the emotions and suffering of his characters. After the composer’s death, the score was subject to significant amendment, including the introduction of recitative in place of the original dialogue; there is no standard edition of the opera, and different views exist as to what versions best express Bizet’s intentions.
Carmen Medium
Carmen Medium
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Carmen Medium
Carmen Medium
La història es desenvolupa a l’Andalusia del 1820. Els protagonistes principals són la gitana Carmen, el seu gelós amant Don José, la pagesa Micaela i el torero Escamillo. Descriu la gelosia de Don José envers Carmen.

About this typeface

The myth of the Spanish gypsy woman created by Prosper Mérimée in his famous novel ‘Carmen’, was the reading inspiration source for this typeface. It was commissioned for a new edition of Mérimée’s romantic novel.

In the public local mind, Carmen character has been used to represent the exotic and inalienable beauty of the gypsy woman, with olive-colored skin and voluptuous sensuality. Carmen typeface is the personification of that beauty but translated into alphabet shapes: A high contrasted Neoclassical typeface with sweet rounded terminals and light strokes as fine as golden threads. Its Italics, slightly inclined and rounded, soft and even fragile, approaches the text as a dance performance.

Carmen typeface evolves contrast, passion and sophisticated elegance within the text. It makes your texts smell like orange blossom.

Designed by
Andreu Balius, 2007-2008.

Awards:

  • Best typeface of 2008 (typographica.org)
  • Top Type 2009 (FontShop)

Carmen typeface supports:
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Guaraní, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni.

It also includes special localized forms for Catalan [l·l] and Dutch [ij].

Styles

  • Carmen Regular
  • Carmen Italic
  • Carmen Medium
  • Carmen Medium Italic
  • Carmen Black
  • Carmen Black Italic

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