French Renaissance Antiqua
The French Renaissance Antiqua is a font class according to DIN 16518 . This Renaissance Antiqua is the further development of the Venetian Renaissance Antiqua . Its name is misleading insofar as the typefaces created between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century are already included in the French Renaissance Antiqua, although they are mostly in Italy (especially in Venice in prints by Aldus Manutius ) and not in France emerged. In France, however, these fonts were subsequently refined, with particular success by Claude Garamond .
When the baroque and neo-classical antiqua emerged, the French Renaissance antiqua went unnoticed for a long time. Their usefulness was only recognized in the second half of the 19th century; it is still in great demand today.
In the English-speaking world, the name Garalde is common for this font class , in France Garaldes , in Holland Garalden . These terms are suitcase words from the first syllables of the names of Garamond and Aldus Manutius. In Italy the font class is called Elzeviriani .
features
The French Renaissance Antiqua has a calmer typeface thanks to the more uniform letter shapes. The shadow axis is still inclined, but the horizontal line of the e is almost horizontal. The upper serifs are still modeled after the painting with the quill pen. This font class is most commonly used for novels and other longer reading texts because of its excellent reading properties.
Well-known representatives
- Albertina ( Frank E. Blokland ), based on the Albertina by Chris Brand , 1965
- Bembo (redrawn by Stanley Morison , 1929), based on the De Aetna-Type by Francesco Griffo , 1496; free version for non-commercial use: Cardo (David J. Perry, 2002)
- Berling ( Karl-Erik Forsberg , 1951)
- Dante ( Giovanni Mardersteig , 1957), inspired by Bembo and Centaur , popular in the USA in the 1950s
- Galliard (Matthew Carter, 1978), inspired by the writings of Robert Granjon (16th century)
- Garamond ( Claude Garamond , 1480–1561), variant: Sabon ( Jan Tschichold , 1967)
- Gentium ( Victor Gaultney ), freely licensed
- Granjon ( GW Jones , 1928)
- Haarlemmer ( Frank E. Blokland , 2002), based on the Haarlemmer by Jan van Krimpen , 1938
- Hollander ( Gerard Unger , 1986)
- Meridien ( Adrian Frutiger 1955)
- Minion ( Robert Slimbach , 1990)
- New Aster ( Francesco Simoncini , 1958)
- Octavian (Will Carter and David Kindersley, 1961)
- Palatino ( Hermann Zapf , 1950) and its lighter text variant Aldus (Hermann Zapf, 1954)
- Plantin ( FH Pierpont , 1913), inspired by the Dutch printer Christoph Plantin (16th century), with its large x-height served as a model for the Times
- Poliphilus (Monotype, 1923), based on a Venetian script by Francesco Griffo , 1499
- Quadraat (Fred Smeijers, 1992-98)
- Stone Serif ( Sumner Stone , 1987)
- Trinité ( Bram de Does , 1982)
- Trump Mediaeval ( Georg Trump , 1954-62)
- Warnock ( Robert Slimbach , 2000)
- Weiß-Antiqua ( Emil Rudolf Weiß , 1926)