Minotaur

What is the Minotaur Font?

Minotaur™ is an original monoline design based on an Oscan (Wikipedia.org) votive inscription from the second century B.C.E. The letterforms immediately caught my eye in the wondferful book, ‘Lettering’ by Hermann Degering, and I decided to create a typeface based on them with only enough compromises to make it usable as a modern alphabet. Not quite as straightforward as I had hoped. For example, the Oscan language (the predominant language in the Italian peninsula before the ascendance of Italian), has no letter “O”, so the distinctive curve of the “D” was used as the model for the rounded letters “C” and “G” and more subtly for “O” and “Q”; this shape is also echoed in the original design of “B”, “P” and “R”. Also, the Oscan letterforms for A, K, L, M, N, S, and U are rather quaint, so I’ve included modern forms as alternates. Minotaur offers the best of both worlds: Just as the mythical Minotaur is half man and half bull, the font Minotaur is half modern and half ancient. Thanks to OpenType features (stylistic sets), you can easily switch from ancient letterforms to modern (if you have an OpenType-savvy application such as Adobe InDesign) for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets. Minotaur supports all modern European languages, including Modern (monotonic) Greek and those that use the Cyrillic alphabet. And, yes, it supports Oscan, both right-facing and left-facing. Minotaur includes 3 OpenType Stylistics Sets: 1 - converts ancient (default) letterforms (A, K, L, M, N, S, and U) to modern alternates; 2 - converts Latin letterforms to equivalent left-facing (standard) Oscan letterforms; 3 - converts Latin letterforms to equivalent right-facing Oscan letterforms.

Minotaur Font Families

When you download Minotaur, the family will include the following font styles:

• Minotaur Regular

Preview of the Minotaur Font

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Who Designed the Minotaur Font?

This font has 1 style(s) and was published by CastleType.

Is Minotaur a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Minotaur is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Minotaur. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Minotaur for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Minotaur if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Minotaur to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Minotaur for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Minotaur, it was available for as little as $59.00.