Pontif is a typeface based on the inscriptional lettering work of Luca Horfei, the Vatican scribe who designed the major inscriptions for Pope Sixtus V’s Baroque-makeover of Rome in the sixteenth century.

Garrett Boge modeled the design on a Horfei manuscript and on-site research in Rome in 1996.

Pontif is part of the LetterPerfect Baroque Set.