font_category: garalde

Caslon #540

Caslon #540 font

The Englishman William Caslon punchcut many roman, italic, and non-Latin typefaces from 1720 until his death in 1766. At that time most types were being imported to England from Dutch sources, so Caslon was...

Sabon Cyrillic

Sabon Cyrillic font

In the early 1960s, the German Master Printers’ Association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would...

Garamond #3

Garamond #3 font

Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480–1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What is accepted is the influence this font had on other typeface developments from the...

Berling

Berling font

Berling is an old style typeface based on the classical Venetian model used by Aldus Manutius at the end of the fifteenth century. Berling was first cut by the Berling foundry in 1951 with...

Linotype Compendio

Linotype Compendio font

Linotype Compendio is a part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the contestants of the International Digital Type Design Contests from 1994 and 1997. Christian Bauer designed this font based on the basic...

Trump Mediaeval

Trump Mediaeval font

In this design prepared for Weber in the 1950s, Georg Trump breaks selected curves to separate his work from conventional oldstyles.

Stempel Garamond

Stempel Garamond font

Based on the series of Claude Garamond romans shown in the Egenolff-Berner specimen sheet printed in 1592, this design is a good sharp cut; it suffers from very short descenders made to fit it...

Simoncini Garamond

Simoncini Garamond font

Another Garamond in the Jannon tradition, this one designed by Francesco Simoncini and W. Bilz.

Sabon

Sabon font

In the early 1960s, the German Master Printers’ Association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would...