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Bembo is a fine text face because of its well-proportioned letterforms, functional serifs, and lack of peculiarities the italic is modeled on the handwriting of the Renaissance scribe Giovanni Tagliente.īooks and other texts set in Bembo can encompass a large variety of subjects and formats because of its quiet classical beauty and its high readability. Stanley Morison supervised the design of Bembo for the Monotype Corporation in 1929. Griffo’s design is considered one of the first of the old style typefaces, which include Garamond, that were used as staple text types in Europe for two hundred years.

Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)īembo was modeled on typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius’ printing of De Aetna in 1495 in Venice, a book by classicist Pietro Bembo about his visit to Mount Etna.

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Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window).Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window).It only has 1 style it is created by one of my favorite artists Georg Duffner. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Web Font: EB Garamond is a basically a slightly thicker version of Bembo but shares most of its characteristic charm.Originally inspired by the font design found in the published work ‘De Aetna’ by the author Pietro Bembo, the Bembo font was founded by the British branch of Monotype Corporation. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Bembo is classified as an old-style Serif typeface designed by Francesco Griffo around the year 1495 and brought back by Stanley Morison in 1929.The italic versions were designed by Alfred Fairbank.Moreover, you can embed it to your website with font-face support. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Download Univers LT Std font for PC/Mac for free, take a test-drive and see the entire character set.

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