Designed by Olcar Alcaide, Calcis is a sans serif font family. This typeface has ten styles and was published by Eurotypo.

“Chalkís” or “Chalkida” was the capital of the Euboea island in old Greece.
The name derived from the Greek and it means copper - bronze.
Colonist from this area founded several important cities in the Magna Graecia, such as Cumae (coastal area of Southern Italy), where our alphabet come from.
At the beginning, first scribes draw the signs in mono-line, but later on, the influence of materials, tools and the skill of calligraphers, developed the refinement of the lettering.
“Calcis” is a family of sans serif fonts, characterized by its austere, functional and clear style, emerged from straight lines and primary shapes; but enriched by the contribution of countless anonymous calligraphers who have polished and embellished their forms over the years.
“Calcis” is presented in five weights and italic style. It has good legibility in small sizes, elegance and strong visual impact in headlines as well.
Each font of the family contain 377 glyphs with accurate kerning pairs careful controlled, and advanced typographical support with OpenType features such as: old style numerals, ligatures, discretional ligatures and case-sensitive forms. It also contain diacritics for Central European languages.

Font Family:
· Calcis Light
· Calcis Light Italic
· Calcis Regular
· Calcis Italic
· Calcis Bold
· Calcis Bold Italic
· Calcis Heavy
· Calcis Heavy Italic
· Calcis Black
· Calcis Black Italic