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Minuet

Minuet™

by Canada Type
Individual Styles from $24.95 USD
Complete family of 4 fonts: $39.95 USD
Minuet Font Family was designed by Stefan Schlesinger, Dick Dooijes, Hans van Maanen and published by Canada Type. Minuet contains 2 styles and family package options.

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    Minuet Complete

    4 fonts

    Best Value!

    Per Style:

    $9.98 USD

    Pack of 4 styles:

    $39.95 USD

    Minuet Pro

    2 fonts

    Per Style:

    $12.47 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $24.95 USD

    Minuet

    2 fonts

    Per Style:

    $12.47 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $24.95 USD

    Per Style:

    $12.47 USD

    Pack of 2 styles:

    $24.95 USD

    About Minuet Font Family


    Minuet, an informal script with crossover deco elements giving it an unmistakable 1940s flavor, is a revival and expansion of the Rondo family, the last typeface drawn by Stefan Schlesinger before his death. This family was initially supposed to be a typeface based on the strong, flowing script Schlesinger liked to use in the ads he designed, particularly the ones he did for Van Houten’s cocoa products. But for technical reasons the Lettergieterij Amsterdam mandated the face to be made from unattached letters, rather than the original connected script. Schlesinger and Dooijes finished the lowercase and the first drawings of the uppercase just before Schlesinger was sent to a prison camp in 1942. Dooijes completed the design on his own, and drew the bold according to Schlesigner’s instructions. The typeface family was finished in February of 1944, and Schlesinger was killed in October of that same year. Though he did see and approve the final proofs, he never actually saw his letters in use. It took almost four more years for the Lettergieterij Amsterdam to produce the fonts. The typeface was officially announced in November of 1948, and immediately became a bestseller. By 1966, according to a memo from the foundry, the typeface had become “almost too popular”. This digital version of Schlesigner’s and Dooijes’s work greatly expands on the metal fonts. Both weights include a complete set of lowercase alternates — based on Schlesinger’s own drawings, as well as alternative variations for some of the capitals, a few ligatures, and extended language support covering Western, Eastern and Central European languages, plus Baltic, Celtic/Welsh, Esperanto, Maltese and Turkish. Minuet is available in all popular formats. The OpenType version, Minuet Pro, takes advantage of internal font programming to combine the main and alternate fonts into a single file per weight, making all alternates and ligatures automatically available at the push of a button in OpenType supporting programs.

    Designers: Stefan Schlesinger, Dick Dooijes, Hans van Maanen

    Publisher: Canada Type

    Foundry: Canada Type

    Design Owner: Canada Type

    MyFonts debut: May 28, 2007

    Minuet™ is a trademark of Canada Type.

    About Canada Type

    Canada Type is an independent digital lettering and font development studio based in Toronto. We were founded in 2004 by a couple of experienced designers who were not pleased with the quality and licensing terms of fonts around the turn of the century. Since then we have greatly expanded, built a versatile and popular retail catalogue, and helped many designers bring international attention to their talents in the constantly changing and increasingly competitive world of type design.While Canada Type o...

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