Flaminia OS is a 2008 opensource project started as a Master Degree Thesis by Andrea Bergamini, an Italian graphic designer annoyed by the chaotic and poorly designed road signage system in his country.
The leading idea was that tests taken in real-life conditions are the only way to validate the design of a font to be used for signage and that the final solution should always come from all of the modifications derived by those experiments.
These considerations led to the design of Flaminia OS, a typographical system that allows its users and its future designers to quickly morph (through the use of Multiple Master axes) different variants of the glyphs.
By allowing minimal changes of only one variable in the letter shapes, Flaminia OS also provides a tool to study which are the most relevant factors in the process of reading signs, and can be used free of charge for further researches in this field.
Further developments of the project will be uploaded on this page, and credit will be given to those who contribute to it.
Note: in case you landed on this website looking for the Flaminia font by the Andinistas type foundry, you might find it at this link. My opensource project is now called Flaminia OS.
The leading idea was that only tests taken in real-life conditions can validate a font’s design.
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