Technical information for bibliophiles and lovers of classic typography.
September 2009
Together with the magazine, the Covile's typography is born. It immediately decides
to use
free software and adopts for the texts the
Fell Types, cut by
Peter De Walpergen (1646-1703)
and digitized by
Igino Marini.

For the masthead, we use fonts and ornaments designed by William Morris for his Kelmscott Press between 1890 and 1896 and digitized by Dieter Steffmann with his Morris Roman and by Tom Wallace with his Morris Ornaments. Other typefaces used are listed in the Ragguaglio.
September 2010
Header and
colophon take a stable form.

October 2010
Special bilingual (English-Italian) issue 609 of the journal summarizes our theoretical
typographic foundations. It will be reprinted in January 2015 as № 834.

October 2012
The
typographic ligatures found in
Fell Types are now used constantly.
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November 2012
In defense of the Italian language, the editorial staff defines its own
Criteria for the drafting of texts.
August 2013
We give
advices for the printing on paper of annuals and texts.

November 2013
In order to make printing even more natural (for theoretical background see
№ 834), a program for
LibreOffice (the application used for page layout) is prepared which introduces small random
variations, barely noticeable, in the repeated characters.
Magnification of consecutive eights e lowercase letters.

Characters from
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, (Aldo Manuzio publisher, Venice 1499) considered by bibliophiles perhaps the most
beautiful of incunabula.
Note how each character, while maintaining the form, is different.
eeeeeeeeModern standard characters.
Identical.
Characters of the Covile editions.
Differentiated.
Daisies in a meadow.
Different, while maintaining the form.
Christmas 2013
In a numbered edition of one hundred copies immediately sold out, the first book
of the Covile is released:
The Little Creation, by Konrad Weiss. The format is 10x15cm.
March 2014
Edizioni Settecolori releases a
series di libri, of books, normally in commerce and under Creative Common license, edited
by the Covile.

February 2015
The font differentiation technique, in use for our editions for more than two years,
is released in the public domain in the form of an Extension for
LibreOffice, called
«Patina».

January 2016
In the series
«I sei pollici» (The six inches) the book
La pagina fiorita (The flowered page) is published, which collects all our texts on typographic subjects.
