Font description

Cantique is a direct reference to the "Cantique des Cantiques" ("The song of the Songs" or "Song of Salomon"), a poem in the Bible expressing both the woman's and man's desire (while the authors might only be men).

The Cantique typeface marks also the marriage between human calligraphy and geometric construction shapes with a modular approach. Circle, triangle and square are the key shapes; uppercase letters are sometimes built on two different levels, as is the case for the B, G, P, R, S and T.

Its main inspiration were some hand-carved titles used in post-romantic French bookplates, both for their ornamental qualities and for their kind of medieval mood. It provides language support for most latin-based European languages and for Vietnamese.

Cantique intends to spread sensuality, spirit and love.