Bembo
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| font | Bembo |
| category | Serif |
| Font classification | French Renaissance Antiqua |
| Font designer | Francesco Griffo |
| Creation | 1496 |
| Republish | Monotype |
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The Bembo is a 1929 for the company Monotype redrawn font that of De Aetna Type the Venetian Francesco Griffo is based on the 1496th
The De Aetna-Type was cut for printing the treatise De Aetna by the young humanist and later Cardinal Pietro Bembo . This work was published in February 1496 (according to the Venetian calendar of 1495) in Aldo Manuzio's print shop . The De Aetna-Type formed the basis for the much better known Garamond , but has more angular serifs than this.
The italic style of the Bembo goes back to a sample book by the Italian callist Giovanni Tagliente from 1524.
Based on these templates, the Bembo used today was redrawn for Monotype in 1929 by the type artist Stanley Morison (according to other sources by Alfred Fairbank ) and named after Bembo. While Monotype's original letterpress versions, like the original, had pronounced ascenders for the letters b, d, f, k and l, these have been shortened to uppercase height in most of the versions available for computers today .
Original sentence from the Bembo with long ascenders from De Aetna
Original section of the Bembo with long ascenders
As part of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative , David J. Perry created the Cardo font , which has an extensive character range and is based on the same original font from 1495 as the Bembo.
Classification of the script
- According to DIN 16518 , the Bembo belongs to Group II ( French Renaissance Antiqua )
- According to Wolfgang Beinert , it belongs to group 1, subgroup French Renaissance Antiqua
See also
- Poliphilus (another, similar cut by Monotype)
literature
- Günter Schuler , Typo-Atlas , ISBN 3-908490-28-6
- X-height Volume 2 Number 3 (1994), pp. 7-11, ISSN 1062-6336
Web links
- Original print by De Aetna
- List of weights in the Bembo font family (Fonts.com)
- List of weights in the Bembo font family (Linotype.com)
- Incunabula Project blog of the Cambridge University Library [1]