Fabrizio Schiavi Explained

Fabrizio Schiavi
Birth Date:	19 June 1971
Birth Place:	Ponte dell'Olio PC, Italy
Nationality:	Italian
Occupation:	Graphic designer, Type designer
Known For:	PragmataPro
Website:	https://www.fsd.it

Fabrizio Schiavi born in Ponte dell'Olio near Piacenza (Italy), is a graphic designer and type designer.

Schiavi is particularly known for the very large font project PragmataPro, the monospaced family designed optimized for screen designed to be the ideal font for coding, math and engineering.^[1]

Biography

Schiavi studied Graphic Design in 1989 at Istituto d’Arte Paolo Toschi in Parma. After working for three years as graphic designer for the Italian record company Expanded Music, he left to set up his own graphic design studio, FSD (Fabrizio Schiavi Design), in Piacenza.

Fonts

• Sys, a geometric TrueType handhinted font
• Pragmata, a monospaced font designed for programmers
• PragmataPro, the enhanced version of Pragmata with more than 7000 glyphs per weight
• Sirucanorm, the rounded sans-serif version of Siruca custom font
• Exit, a narrow sans-serif available at MyFonts
• D^44, available at MyFonts
• Sidewalker, available at MyFonts
• Lithium, available at MyFonts
• Eco, available at MyFonts
• Eco-Nomico, available at MyFonts
• FF Steel, available at FontShop
• FF Trade01, available at FontShop
• FF 9600-0069, available at FontShop
• FF GeäbOil, available at FontShop
• FF Mode01 available at FontShop^[2]
• Monica, available at MyFonts
• MonicaDue, available at MyFonts

Custom Fonts

• Abitare Sans, designed for Abitare of RCS MediaGroup^[3]
• Widiba Sans, Serif, Display, Script, designed for Widiba of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Group with jekyll & hyde studio^[4]
• CP Company, designed for C.P. Company
• Virna, designed for MTV Italia
• Siruca, designed for Al Hamra Tower wayfinding
• Be and Bee, designed for Beretta^[5]
• Nove, designed for Nike, Inc.

Web Sites

• Mandarina Duck, mandarinaduck.com, art direction Sartoria Comunicazione
• C.P. Company, cpcompany.com, art direction Fabrizio Schiavi
• Ferrari, club.ferrari.com, committed by Orchestra
• Vic Matié, vicmatie.it, art direction Stefano Meneghetti
• Search for Art, searchforart.org, sponsored by Mandarina Duck committed by Sartoria Comunicazione
• Duccio Grassi Architects, ducciograssi.it, art direction Fabrizio Schiavi

Corporate Identities

• Philip Morris Company, proposal, committed by Leo Burnett
• Mandarina Duck, guide line, committed by Sartoria Comunicazione
• YU
• Quality Bau
• R&M per comunicare^[6]
• Expanded Music^[7]
• Radio Italia Network
• Terratrema Film^[8]

External links

• Fabrizio Schiavi home page
• Portfolio in pdf
• http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/FSD/ Fabrizio Schiavi Design page at MyFonts
• https://www.fontshop.com/designers/fabrizio-schiavi Fabrizio Schiavi page at FontShop
• http://www.typetoken.net/typeface/fabrizio-schiavi-typography/ Fabrizio Schiavi page at Typetoken
• http://typecache.com/Fabrizio_Schiavi_Design/ Fabrizio Schiavi page at Typecache
• http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-24673.html Fabrizio Schiavi page at Luc Devroye site
• http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Schiavi/FSchiavi.pdf Klingspor Museum about Fabrizio Schiavi.

Notes and References

1. Web site: PragmataPro official page . Fabrizio Schiavi.
2. Web site: Fabrizio Schiavi page at Linotype site .
3. Web site: Abitare Sans at fsd.it .
4. Web site: Widiba typefaces at Behance .
5. Web site: Article about Beretta font .
6. Web site: R&M branding at Behance .
7. Web site: some Fabrizio Schiavi record sleeves .
8. Web site: Portfolio in pdf .