Al Dente Sans
Ah, the old art of stereotyping, if it wasn't here for us to enjoy we would most certainly need to invent it.
Wikipedia's entry on Italian stereotypes:
"Italian people are often depicted as singers, involved with the mafia and cooking pasta and tomato type foods. They all crave for their mothers, gesticulate heavily and are easily offended. Sometimes they sell fruit or ice cream. When they talk they often add "a"'s behind verbs, for example: "I do not-a want-a talk with you.".
Let's add that Italian designers often use spaghetti to design and it will be perfect.
Below you can find the first application of a typeface I'm currently working on that is called Al Dente Sans. Built entirely using spaghetti Buitoni it was originally developed as a small gift for my girlfriend's 22nd birthday. After a friend of mine displayed some interest I resolved to cook the whole alphabet and digitize it. A lower case version might just come up as well. Al Dente Sans is strongly indicated for party style (well, maybe dinner style?) graphics and for the numerous applications for which the other zillion typefaces in circulation can't match the designer's needs.
There is so much that it always feels like there is never enough.
Visually, Al Dente Sans is a crossbred between Frankenstein and the Flintstones running a carbohydrate marathon at the 2012 Olympics.
Conceptually, Al Dente Sans wholeheartedly embraces the imperative need for designers and humans alike to create completely useless stuff and praise each other for such marvelous achievements.
To paraphrase the late Hunter S. Thompson:
WHEN THE GOING GETS-A- USELESS THE USELESS TURN-A- PRO.
The first physical application of Al Dente Sans
