What is the Tarocco font?
Tarocco is a typical book face with good readability and rather tall x-height. The origin for this typeface is found in Nordisk Antikva. A typeface especially constructed with attention for the Swedish language.
Waldemar Zachrisson was determined to realize his ideas and in 1906 he began to cooperate with the foundry Genzsch & Heyse, based in Hamburg. Some influences of Jugendt can be found and the typeface were released in 1910. It became rather popular until around 1930.
The MRF version includes 7 weights all together.
Tarocco Font families
The Tarocco font includes the following font families:
- Tarocco OT Roman
- Tarocco OSFOT Roman
- Tarocco Extras OT Roman
- Tarocco OT Smallcaps
- Tarocco OSFOT Smallcaps
- Tarocco Extras OT SCOSF
- Tarocco OT Italic
- Tarocco OSFOT Italic
- Tarocco Extras OT Italic
- Tarocco OT Medium
- Tarocco OSFOT Medium
- Tarocco Extras OT Medium
- Tarocco OT Medium Italic
- Tarocco OSFOT Medium Italic
- Tarocco Extras OT Medium Italic
- Tarocco OT Bold
- Tarocco OSFOT Bold
- Tarocco Extras OT Bold
- Tarocco OT Bold Italic
- Tarocco OSFOT Bold Italic
- Tarocco Extras OT Bold Italic
- Tarocco OT Ornaments
Tarocco Preview
Here is a preview of how Tarocco will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.