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Last edited May 23, 2017
mystic
wunderkinder
Sarcasm is more a shield than a lance

ITC Legacy® was designed by American Ronald Arnholm, who was first inspired to develop the typeface when he was a graduate student at Yale. In a type history class, he studied the 1470 book by Eusebius that was printed in the roman type of Nicolas Jenson. Arnholm worked for years to create his own interpretation of the Jenson roman, and he succeeded in capturing much of its beauty and... Read More

safety
ultraviolets
Do not empty your dog here

Poetica font was designed by Robert Slimbach in 1992 with particularly generous characters. The typeface family consists of 21 weights to allow for an unusual variety of design possibilities within one typeface family. Numerous swash letters, ornaments and ligatures remind one of the early Renaissance and its unforgettable masters, for example, Giambattista Palatino, who later gave his name... Read More

grapes
enthusiastic
Survivors will be shot again

Aquinas was designed by David Quay in 1989. It is distinguished by the contrast between its upright, generous capitals and its narrow, slanted lower case letters which look almost like italics. The combination of these so different alphabets creates an opportunity to give texts an unusual yet elegant look. Aquinas is suitable for both running text and headlines and should be used in point... Read More

always
enthusiastic
Today is under construction

Zapf Chancery font is a work of German designer Hermann Zapf. It was named after a typeface used in Anglo-Saxon lands during the Renaissance as well as inspired by such scripts. This font makes it possible to give printed items an individual character. The handwriting of the designer can be seen in the forms of this classic, elegant font.

vortex
guitarfishes
A friction is very interesting

Named for the Renaissance Medici family of Florence and designed by Hermann Zapf for Linotype in 1974, Medici is a calligraphic font that simulates the look of a broad-edged pen on rough paper. It is considered a precursor to Zapf's work for the ITC Zapf Chancery series.

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bureaucratic
Throw mischievous cook the sauce

ITC Golden Type® is a revival of a typeface designed in the late nineteenth century by William Morris, who was a great Victorian designer, poet, artist, craftsman, social reformer, and printer. In his search for a solid and pure letterform to use in his private press editions, he was inspired by the roman types in books printed by Nicolas Jenson in the fifteenth century. The type he designed,... Read More

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abstractions
Miscellaneous bacteria pot monsters

Monotype Bembo is generally regarded as one of the most handsome revivals of Aldus Manutius' 15th century roman type, but the original had no italic counterpart. The story is told that Stanley Morison commissioned Alfred Fairbank, a renowned calligrapher, to create the first italic for Bembo, which was released as metal fonts in 1929. Alfred Fairbank, however, claimed that he drew the design as... Read More

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enthusiastic
Remember to pillage before you burn

Blado is the name given to the italic of Poliphilus. At the time when Francesco Griffo cut the roman that was used as the basis for Poliphilus, the practice of making an accompanying italic had not arisen. The italic that he cut later for Aldus Manutius was not considered suitable as an italic for Monotype's Poliphilus. A design by the calligrapher Ludovico degli Arrighi was selected,... Read More

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wunderkinder
Please no bomb into the ash here

Griffo Classico™ was produced by Franko Luin in 1993. It is a revival inspired by the types cut by Francesco Griffo for the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius at the end of the fifteenth century. The roman is based on the type Griffo cut in 1496 for Bembo's "de Aetna," and the italic on a type he cut in 1501 for an edition of Virgil. Griffo did not make separate italic caps, so Luin designed his... Read More

rocket
abstractions
Please present your octopus

In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably... Read More

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zygapophysis
This freezer is out of control

Italian Old Style™ was designed by Frederic W. Goudy for the Lanston Monotype Company in the USA. Goudy was asked by Monotype to copy Cloister Oldstyle, a successful font that belonged to a competing foundry (it was designed by Morris Fuller Benton, see Cloister Open Face). Goudy refused on grounds of ethics, and instead talked Monotype into producing a new face. This he based freely on... Read More

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enthusiastic
Help oneself terminating machine

In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably... Read More

Robert Slimbach, Ludovico degli Arrighi and Nicolas Jenson
Adobe
Ronald Arnholm
ITC 1992
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1992
David Quay
ITC 1989
Hermann Zapf
ITC 1979
Hermann Zapf
Linotype
Garrett Boge
LetterPerfect 1989
Nick Shinn
Shinntype
Morris Fuller Benton, Richard Lipton and Jacqueline Sakwa
Bitstream 1993
Helga Jörgenson, Sigrid Engelmann and William Morris
ITC 1929
Nick Shinn
Shinntype
Monotype, Steve Matteson and Alfred Fairbank
Monotype 2006

Bitstream
Monotype.Design Studio and Antonio Blado
Monotype 1539
Franko Luin and Francesco Griffo
Linotype 1495
Aldus Manutius
Bitstream
Franko Luin and Nicolas Jenson
Linotype 1470
Frederic W. Goudy and Monotype.Design Studio
Monotype 1924
Esselte Letraset, Freda Sack and Colin Brignall
ITC 1982