Capo Verso

Capo Verso font is an ancient decorative display typeface featuring medieval old-style letterforms. Poetic and historical, this design channels classical manuscript tradition for literary publications, heritage brands, and cultural organizations. The decorative construction evokes illuminated texts while old-style character creates scholarly atmosphere. Designers working on poetry collections, classical music programming, and literary events will appreciate the reverent character. Pair with elegant serif body text.

Capo Verso was crafted by Michele Casanova. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Capo Verso features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Capo Verso is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.