Cardo is a serif type Unicode font, developed by David J. Perry. It is freeware, for non-commercial and non-profit uses only. It was developed to serve needs of writing in medieval Latin.

It was inspired by the same 15th century Aldus Manutius print De Aetna as the Bembo design.

At this moment only regular style is available; italic to be developed later.

It contains 2,879 characters (2882 glyphs, 216 kerning pairs) in v0.098, 2004. It covers characters from the following Unicode blocks: Basic Latin (95), Latin-1 Supplement (96), Latin Extended-A (128), Latin Extended-B (52), IPA Extensions (96), Spacing Modifier Letters (80), Combining Diacritical Marks (112), Greek (124), Cyrillic (2), Hebrew (86), Arabic (10), Georgian (1), Runic (81), Phonetic Extensions (17), Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (2), Latin Extended Additional (88), Greek Extended (233), General Punctuation (65), Superscripts and Subscripts (9), Currency Symbols (6), Letterlike Symbols (13), Number Forms (4), Arrows (14), Mathematical Operators (24), Miscellaneous Technical (36), Box Drawing (1), Geometric Shapes (8), Miscellaneous Symbols (31), Dingbats (6), Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (9), Supplemental Arrows-A (2), Supplemental Arrows-B (6), Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (2), Supplemental Punctuation (24), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (12), Alphabetic Presentation Forms (53), Specials (1), Aegean Numbers (2), Ancient Greek Numbers (75), Old Italic (35), Gothic (27), Ancient Greek Musical Notation (70), Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (13).

See also

List of typefaces

Unicode typefaces

History of western typography

External links

Fonts for Scholars: the Cardo Font

Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

Typophile: Bembo