AM Tripoli

Tripoli is a dark, uppercase sanserif with a strong expressionist feel. Its geometric letterforms feature slightly flattened arches, tiny counters and sharp edges as well as the peculiar sharp triangular shapes in the central strokes of E and F. Some arches have been replaced by curved strokes that become abrupt sharp angles, such as in S and the figure 3. Tripoli was produced as a wood type by Xilografia Italiana (based in Badia Polesine, between Verona and Rovigo), probably shortly after 1934, when the company was founded. We can assume this from the historical context, as Tripoli is the capital of Libya, and Mussolini instigated large-scale immigration of Italian settlers to Libya in the early 1930s (after a war against local insurgents in which Italian troops committed several war crimes). [c-a-s-t.com]