Working titles for this font were obvious things like "Crime Wave" and "Criminologist" and such along those lines. But then I decided it'd be cute to name it after somebody dead and latinate, which is common for serious typefaces but downright silly for a munged typewriter font. I like silly. Cesare Beccaria was an 18th-century Italian who wrote what is probably the first really important book on crime, see, so it all works together if you squint.

All that aside, I realized one day that I'd had fontmaking as a hobby for a couple of years now and still hadn't made any sort of typewriter font. Around the same time, I was doing a lot of work up at the public library downtown, including some typing, and Beccaria was born.

The ribbons on the library typewriters aren't THAT bad, of course; I exaggerated a little. But they're pretty rotten on some days! Since I built the font based on samples from a real typewriter, the character set is ALMOST a complete keyboard set - the couple of missing characters have been replaced by bullets.

Beccaria font contains 99 defined characters and 94 unique glyphs.

The font contains characters from the following unicode character ranges: Basic Latin (93), Latin-1 Supplement (4), General Punctuation (1).

• Font Name:Beccaria
• Subfamily:Regular
• Version:1.0 www.cumberlandgames.com
• Trademark:Beccaria is a trademark of the Cumberland Fontworks
• Designer:S. John Ross

Named after one of the world's earliest criminologists, and taken from roughened type from a poor ribbon, courtesy of the Austin Public Library.

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