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Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".
Bust of Aldo Manuzio. Panteon Veneto; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Aldus Manutius was born close to Rome in Bassiano between 1449 and 1452. [2] [3] [4] He grew up in a wealthy family during the Italian Renaissance and in his youth was sent to Rome to become a humanist scholar.
Aldus gives Griffo credit in the introduction of the Virgil of 1501. However, as Manutius had achieved a monopoly on italic printing and Greek publishing with the permission of the Venetian government, he had a falling-out with Griffo. Griffo then went to work for Gershom Soncino, whose family were Hebrew printers. It was with Soncino that ...
De Aetna, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495. Its roman type was the model for Garamond's. The roman designs of Garamond which are his most imitated were based on a font cut around 1495 for the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by engraver Francesco Griffo.
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [1] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [2] [3] [4] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.
The font family was premiered on November 24, 2005, [46] the same day as Hermann Zapf's 87th birthday celebration. [47] A new digitisation of Aldus named Aldus nova was created at the same time. [ 48 ] [ 49 ]
Carter developed these from hands found in a woodcut illustration in the Hypnerotomachia Polifili, published in 1499 by Aldus Manutius. All YaleNew fonts include the Yale logo, the Yale Shield, and the words “University” and “College” as single glyphs adjusted to visually coordinate with the Yale logo.
Cloister Italic (1913), based on the 1501 italic face of Aldus Manutius. Cloister Bold Condensed (1917) Cloister Cursive (1922) Cloister Lightface (1924) Cloister Lightface Italic (1925) Cloister Cursive Handtooled (1926), with Charles H. Becker. Della Robbia Light (1913), based on T.M. Cleland’s Della Robbia. Later copied by Damon & Peat as ...