Phylomeny

I was in Rovereto, Trento (Italy) for a few days to present a poster in the COGEVO: Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution organized by Trento University. As a person who has been exposed to the massacre of type in Turkey all his life, I was really impressed by how a well-established typographic tradition creates such variety without compromising quality (even though it isn’t fully immune to the Comic Sans plague).

So here is my typographic impression of Rovereto and Trento. (click on it to see the full size)