Palatino

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Palatino
font Palatino
category Serifs
Font classification French Renaissance Antiqua
Font designer Hermann Zapf
Type foundry D. stamp
Creation 1949
Variations Aldus, Palatino nova, Book Antiqua, Palladio, Palazzo, Parlament, TeX Gyre Pagella, Zapf Calligraphic 801
example
Font example for Palatino

The font Palatino is a French Renaissance Antiqua , which in 1949 by Hermann Zapf in a sample grade of D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt designed and for the book from the triple reverence, Goethe's thoughts about education for precious humanity 's 200th Birthday Goethe was used. At the end of 1950 it appeared in the font sizes normal, italic and semi-bold both for hand typesetting and for Linotype typesetting. A light cut was published in 1952 as Aldus book font.

history

Zapf had first visited the Italian cities of Florence , Rome, and Pisa to study firsthand the inscriptions of the Italian Renaissance . His goal was to create a new form of Renaissance Antiqua. Together with the stamp cutter August Rosenberger , Zapf studied how a font has to be designed in order to withstand the rough offset printing on rather inferior paper. The end result of the effort was to Giambattista Palatino , an Italian master of calligraphy of the 16th century , named.

The light and open design of the Palatino is still one of the world's most widespread antiqua typefaces for book printing and has been expanded as a typeface family several times since its appearance. The font styles bold and extra bold were also created . Since the advent of digital typesetting, there have been additions for small caps and old-style figures for normal and bold weights .

As early as 1990, Zapf was considered one of the most damaged victims of global typography piracy after the Second World War. In addition to the original Linotype version, the Palatino is also offered as an imitation of other typeface houses that deviate from the typeface. Examples of this practice: At Bitstream it is called Zapf Calligraphic 801 , at Softmaker Palazzo , at URW Type Foundry Palladio , at Elsner + Flake Scangraphic Parlament and at Monotype Book Antiqua . The Palatino has been part of the Apple operating system since the appearance of MacOS 7.0 in 1991. On Windows, the Palatino imitation Book Antiqua , which was not authorized by Hermann Zapf, has been part of the Microsoft Office scope of delivery since 1993 . Only with the Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems is there a version authorized by Zapf that integrates Palatino Linotype with Cyrillic and Greek characters.

In 2005, Akira Kobayashi and Hermann Zapf completely revised the Palatino font family and published it as Palatino nova in ten weights with an extensive set of additional characters by Linotype GmbH . In 2007 the sans serif Palatino Sans was published , which adopts the basic forms of the Palatino letters. The basic lines are slightly thickened and rounded towards the ends, which gives the font an almost handwritten character. For the Palatino Sans Informal variant , some letter forms were modified to give the font a more individual, artistic expression.

In addition to the more mechanical-looking modern Palatino editions, Hermann Zapf's original form from 1950 will continue to be sold. A year before the H. Berthold AG type foundry went bankrupt in 1993 , it digitized the version called Palatino 1950 at the time . This typeface can be bought for computers as Berthold-Palatino 1992 , although there are also imitations of it today, such as the Paxim from Elsner + Flake Scangraphic and the Palazzo-Original from Softmaker.

Aldus

Following the font styles cast in 1950, Zapf designed a lighter style for the Palatino for the movement set, which was to be named Palatino Book . However, since the people in charge at Stempel and Linotype wanted to publish this style as a separate typeface, it was named Aldus Buchschrift .

literature

Palatino. A family to know! (Brochure) D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt a. M. 1955

Web links

Commons : Palatino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the type foundry D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt a. M. D. Stempel AG. Frankfurt a. M., 1955. p. 1924.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Hendlmeier (Ed.): Works of art of writing. 3. Edition. Federation for German Writing and Language 1994. p. 227.
  3. ↑ Alexander S. Lawson: Anatomy of a typeface . David R. Godine Publisher, Boston 1990. ISBN 0879233338 . P. 124. (in English)
  4. ↑ http://www.linotype.com/de/30/aldus-schriftfamilie.html
  5. ↑ Alexander S. Lawson: Anatomy of a typeface . David R. Godine Publisher, Boston 1990. ISBN 0879233338 . P. 126. (in English)
  6. ↑ Michael Maier: Compendium. Word 2007. Markt + Technik Verlag. Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-8272-4569-4 . P. 216.
  7. ↑ Alexander S. Lawson: Anatomy of a typeface . David R. Godine Publisher, Boston 1990. ISBN 0879233338 . P. 125. (in English)