Fabio Caverzasio

Piombo is Italian for lead, the metal type was cast in for five hundred years, and this grotesk keeps a little of its weight. The round letters are built from rings that touch only at their extremes, the joins stay tight, the terminals are cut flat and the figures line up calmly in a table, ready for timetables and prices. It comes in nine weights, from a whisper-thin Thin to a Black that leans on the page, each with its italic at ten degrees, plus a variable version for everything in between. Drawn in Lugano, mostly in code.

Year
2026
Type
Grotesk, 9 weights + italics, variable
Glyphs
455, Latin-1 and Latin Extended-A
Services
Type design, Specimen, Print
Design
Fabio Caverzasio

Piombo Grotesk

Piombo Grotesk: Aa in Medium, black on warm grey R, g, &, a, ß and ? in Piombo Grotesk on six colours
The nine weights of Piombo Grotesk from Thin to Black, upright and italic, on lime
An orange bus-stop poster with Piombo Grotesk in Black and the nine weights listed below A mint banner on a column, the word Lugano repeated from Thin to Black
Posters pasted on a wall, Ag in four weights on orange and white
A white street poster in blue: 06.11.2026, Vernissage, Piombo Grotesk, Nove pesi, Fonderia, Lugano A mustard sign on a stone building: Lugano, Lugano, Lauis in three weights
A broadsheet called Il Piombo, with long text columns and a large Rg on orange A blue poster under stone arches: Notte bianca, Lugano, 14.07.2026 A black billboard under a railway bridge with Piombo set large in white