Cardo (font)
| font | Cardo |
| category | Serif |
| Font classification | French Renaissance Antiqua |
| Font designer | David J. Perry |
| Client | Medieval Unicode Font Initiative |
| Creation | 2002 |
| License | Open Font License |
| Based on | Bembo |
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Cardo is a font created by David J. Perry since 2002 , which is based on the De Aetna-Type by the Venetian Francesco Griffo from 1496. This early Antiqua typeface was first used in the printing house of Aldus Manutius for the book De Aetna by Pietro Bembo . The Cardo is based on the same historical typeface as the Bembo redrawn in 1929 for the Monotype company . Cardo was created as part of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative .
The font is available in both a normal font and italic. Cardo provides thousands of glyphs for a wide variety of, sometimes very exotic, applications. It contains characters for ancient Greek musical notation , Hebrew , phonetic alphabets , Etruscan , Middle High German , various systems of measures and weights and much more, as well as a large number of ligatures .
After a long hiatus while David J. Perry was not working on the font, there were several releases of the font in 2010 and 2011. From version 0.99 the font is under the SIL Open Font License and can therefore be passed on and edited. The previous version 1.04 was published on April 20, 2011.
Classification of the script
- According to DIN 16518 , the Bembo belongs to Group II ( French Renaissance Antiqua )
- According to Beinert , it belongs to group 1 , subgroup French Renaissance Antiqua
