Bello is a brush typeface for headline point sizes - it’s big & beautiful. Bello has lots of ligatures and start and ending swashes. They are automatic in Bello Pro, which is a cross-platform OpenType font with many OpenType features.

Bello is also available in normal TrueType flavoured OpenType format for PC and PostScript Type 1 format for Mac. Bello has an extended European character set (WE+CE).

After a period of hand sketching and lettering, we decided to give Bello two main styles: script and small caps. These two fonts create a strong typographic contrast - while Bello Script is flourished and flowing, Bello Small Caps are upright and sturdy. As sturdy as brush lettering allows for, of course.

Careful spacing and kerning ensures that Bello appears like fluently written handwriting. However, that’s not enough for a hand-lettered feel. Therefore Bello comes with a set of 64 ligatures. Some of them are typographic, some made simply to create a more intimate, natural impression. For the same reasons we have added a few ornaments and a set of snap-on beginning and ending swashes which attach to the lowercase letters of Bello.

Bello Pro is an OpenType font (.otf) which combines all Bello fonts into one sophisticated font. Bello Pro contains Advanced Layout Features, which makes it for example easy to automatically implement all the ligatures of Bello. But there is more to Bello Pro. SmallCaps are included in the same font, it’s possible to automatically replace the oldstyle figure style with lining figures, etc. And if you wanna hit Bello Pro hard, you can even automatically replace some words in your text by the pre-designed word logotypes.