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ALT Riviera
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The Neapolitan flip coffee pot (Italian: napoletana or caffettiera napoletana) is a drip brew coffeemaker for the stove top that was very popular in Italy until last century. Unlike a moka express, a napoletana does not use the pressure of steam to force the water through the coffee, relying instead on gravity. The napoletana was invented in 1819 by a Frenchman named Morize. It was originally constructed out of copper, until 1886, when the material was switched to aluminum. The reason for taking its name from the city of Naples is due to the fact that Morize was in love with a Neapolitan girl. The namesake cuccumella derives from cuccuma, meaning “copper or terracotta vase”.
It consists of a bottom section filled with water, a filter section in the middle filled with finely ground coffee, and an upside-down pot placed on the top. When the water boils, the entire three-part coffee maker is flipped over to let the water filter through the coffee grounds. Once the water has dripped through the grounds, the water-boiling and filter sections are removed, and the coffee is served from the remaining pot. If coarse grounds are used, the coffee is brewed quite mildly. Using very finely ground coffee in the “Neapolitan” style, roasted colour “cloak of monk”, this method can produce a coffee that has a stronger flavor than an automatic drip brew maker. The cuppetiello is a small paper cone (which is used in other ways in Naples, such as holding food) that goes over the spout.
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ALT Riviera is a contemporary grotesk that doesn’t pretend to be neutral; it sits comfortably in the modern sans-serif scene: clean, functional and usable. But the closer you look at it, the more it refuses to be anonymous. The construction borrows from geometric logic, but the shapes aren’t rigid or sanitized.

Curves are occasionally slightly off, joins feel considered, and certain letters carry tension points that give the font a pulse. What makes Riviera work is the balance between control and looseness, soft and sharp. It works well in text, but it has moments where it can step forward: an R that feels confident, a G with attitude, proportions that don’t fully conform to neutrality.

These details keep it from feeling too boring or generic, without tipping into gimmick territory. Expressive, but disciplined. 

Equipped with 6 font weights (Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Extrabold) and it's accompanying italic and monospaced cuts, ALT Riviera packs a punch, suitable for both Display and Text scenarios.

FEATURES:

— 600+ glyphs
— 6 font weights + italics + monospaced
— Uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuation
— Diacritics
— Symbols
— Mathematical symbols (Roman numerals, fractions, signs)
— Western, Central, South and North Latin language support
— Latin Extended A (100%)
— Latin Extended B (13%)
— Greek

 

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