Folio (font)
| font | Folio |
| category | Sans serif |
| Font classification | Older grotesque |
| Font designer |
Walter Baum Konrad Friedrich Bauer |
| Type foundry | Bauer foundry |
| Creation | 1956 |
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The Folio is a font designed by Walter Baum and Konrad Friedrich Bauer in 1956 .
The font was available as hand typesetting and as matrices for line casting machine typesetting ( Intertype ). Folio was available from H. Berthold AG for phototypesetting (dc writing disks , staromat type plates ) and as digital font . Some of the styles in the digital fonts are now distributed by Adobe and Linotype.
17 font weights were created between 1956 and 1969:
- The folio grotesque of the Bauer foundry
| Cut (foundry name) | First casting | Originally available lead font sizes p | Line casting p |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folio grotesque, narrow bold | 1956 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84 | - |
| Folio Grotesque Lean | 1957 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 | Intertype 6, 8, 9, 10 |
| Folio grotesque, semi-bold | 1957 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | Intertype 6, 8, 9, 10 |
| Folio-Grotesk broad semi-bold | 1959 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio grotesque bold | 1959 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio-Grotesk extra bold | 1959 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60, 72 | - |
| Folio Italic Lean | 1959 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 | Intertype 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| Folio-Italic broad, half-bold | 1959 | 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio grotesque narrow and lean | 1962 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 | - |
| Folio-Grotesk narrow half-bold | 1962 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio grotesque in wide bold | 1963 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio italics, narrow bold | 1964 | 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio grotesque book | 1965 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 | Intertype 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 |
| Folio grotesque three-quarter bold | 1965 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | Intertype 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 |
| Folio-Grotesk broad lean | 1965 | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 | - |
| Folio grotesque narrow | 1966 | 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 60 | - |
| Folio-Grotesk broadly light | 1969 | 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 | - |
The folio was created around the same time as the Helvetica (from 1957) and also belongs to the family of sans serif linear antiqua fonts. From a historical perspective, the folio revitalizes an older font, the Breite Grotesk from Bauer's foundry from before 1867.
After a good start in the 1960s, the folio is rarely used today. Although it shares many similarities with the Helvetica, it was not as successful. Of the large German companies, only SAP has been using Folio since 2001 - with a slight modification - in their corporate design .
It became much better known during the 1970s through the James Bond films, in which the font was often used for posters. The best-known examples are the poster designs for The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). For the film Diamantenfieber (1971) Folio was only used in the UK.
classification
- According to DIN 16518 , Folio is categorized in Group IV Sans Serif Linear Antiqua.
- According to Beinert , the folio is an older grotesque (Neo-Grotesque).
- Hans Peter Willberg would classify it as static grotesque in his classification matrix.
swell
- ↑ Sample card index DIN 16507, Bauersche Gießerei
- ↑ Handbook of Fonts. A compilation of the fonts of the type foundries of the German language, sorted by genre. Albrecht Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1926, p. 200.
- ↑ The man with the golden gun on filmposter-archiv.de
- ↑ The spy who loved me on filmposter-archiv.de