Monotype's Bembo Book digitisation is one of the few digital releases to include both styles. Both allowed metal type to be quickly cast under the control of a keyboard, eliminating the need to manually cast metal type and slot it into place into a printing press. These were used as a master to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. "[14], Bembo's development took place following a series of breakthroughs in printing technology which had occurred over the last fifty years without breaking from the use of metal type. [62][63], As was normal in metal type fonts of the period from Monotype and other companies, the font was drawn differently at different sizes by modifying Griffo's original single-size design, a quite large letter at an approximate size of 15 points. Bembo is named for Manutius's first publication with it, a small 1496 book by the poet and cleric Pietro Bembo. [91][92][93] Compared to Bembo it is somewhat lighter in structure, something particularly true in its digital facsimile. [13] The final release of Monotype's revival did not follow this, although it was available by special order. [49][50][51] He also discussed the project in his letters with the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, who had some interest in printing. Bembo Pro Roman. [94][j] Penguin often used it for headings and titles of 'classic' editions, particularly its capitals and italic; its lower-case does not so effectively harmonise with Bembo due to the different letter shapes such as the tilted 'e'. Arrighi's book had a complex publication history apparently involving a dispute between Arrighi and his publisher, making its dating and printing location(s) both somewhat involved. Monotype also cut italic capitals sloped to match the lower-case, whereas in the Renaissance italics were used with upright capital letters in the Roman inscriptional tradition. Bridges' poem. As an example of this, Fontsite obtained the rights to resell a derivative of the original digitisation, using the alternative name Borgia and Bergamo, upgrading it by additional OpenType features such as small capitals and historical alternative characters. Many lowercase letters show subtle, sinuous curves; the termination of the arm of both the r and the e flare slightly upward and outward. However, modern printing methods show less ink spread than metal type. The bold (Monotype's invention, since Griffo and his contemporaries did not use bold type) is extremely solid, providing a very clear contrast to the regular styles, and Monotype also added lining (upper-case height) figures as well as the text figures (at lower-case height) used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [48][e], Among Bembo's more distinctive characteristics, the capital "Q"'s tail starts from the glyph's centre, the uppercase "J" has a slight hook and the sides of the "M" splay outwards slightly. Bembo has been released in versions for phototypesetting and in several revivals as digital fonts by Monotype and other companies. Unlike Bembo, Centaur's first rather spindly digitisation was never augmented with a more text-oriented one, possibly because it is particularly commonly used in titles anyway. [24] This was originally not intended as a complementary design, as is used today, but rather as an alternative, more informal typeface suitable for small volumes. The original Morison typeface … Monotype also created a second, much more eccentric italic for it to the design of calligrapher Alfred Fairbank, which also did not receive the same attention as the normal version of Bembo. Griffo, sometimes called Francesco da Bologna (of Bologna), was an engraver who created designs by cutting punches in steel. [14] Monotype Dante Series 592, Dante Semi Bold Series 682 and Dante Titling Series 612, were only produced in Didot-sizes. [12], Bembo's technical production followed Monotype's standard method of the period. This was an ultra-premium electric golfball typewriter system, intended for producing copy to be photographically enlarged for small-scale printing projects, or for high-quality office documents. [156] The name "Bembo" remains a Monotype trademark and may not be used to describe such clones. [72][73][74][i] Nesbitt has described the capitals as "a composite design in the spirit of [Griffo's] type". It was drawn by the American book designer Bruce Rogers. [30][89] Morison preferred Bembo's roman and was somewhat dismissive of Poliphilus. The Monotype Corporation in London used this roman face as the model for a 1929 project of Stanley Morison which resulted in a font called Bembo. [141] It is a default font in the Apple Books application. I knew that a metal typeface was cut or designed separately for each size, but a film composition or digital face is a kind of compromise having proportions designed for reduction and enlargement. [114] Cambridge University Press's history describes Bembo as one of its most commonly used typefaces; Morison was closely connected to Cambridge and his personal archive (as well as much of Monotype's) went to the university after his death. For a moment I froze in front of the computer, thinking about writing a letter of complaint to the company for sending us the wrong font. Bembo contains 18 styles and family package options. "[166], In the pre-digital period, IBM offered Aldine, a font inspired by Bembo, as a font for the IBM Composer. The Bembo design is an old-style humanist serif typeface originally cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 and revived by Stanley Morison in 1929. [5][6][7], Griffo was one of the first punchcutters to fully express the character of the humanist hand that contemporaries preferred for manuscripts of classics and literary texts, in distinction to the book hand humanists dismissed as a gothic hand or the everyday chancery hand. With a larger x-height (taller lower-case letters) than the print-oriented Bembo and influences of signpainting (Downer's former profession), it was intended to be particularly clear for reading at distance, in displays and in signage. "[165] It is available exclusively to "Yale students, employees, and authorized contractors for use in Yale publications and communications. [15][88][22] Blado is named after the printer Antonio Blado, a colleague of Arrighi. Buying Choices. [99], Bembo has been very popular in book publishing, particularly in Britain. As an example of how this scaling was carried out, experienced Linotype designer Chauncey Griffith commented some years later that in a type he was working on for newspapers, the 6 point size was not half as wide as the 12 point size but about 71% the width. 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[76][12], In the italic, the expansive ascenders of Tagliente's type were shortened and the curl to the right replaced with more conventional serifs. Many early typeface digitisations now look too light even when they were digitised from the original metal type drawings. [148][149][150] Several unofficial versions were released during the phototypesetting period under alternate names; for example one unofficial phototypesetting version was named "Biretta" after the hat worn by Roman Catholic clergy, and another by Erhard Kaiser was created for the East German printing concern Typoart, outside the reach of Western intellectual property laws. [95][96], Although Bembo went on to dominate British book printing in the twentieth century, in the words of John Dreyfus "Morison was not entirely satisfied by the way Griffo's roman had been recut", feeling that "the real charm of the original had not been brought out in the mechanical recutting". The Bembo® design is an old-style humanist serif typeface originally cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 and revived by Stanley Morison in 1929. Individual Styles from $35.00. One of the main characteristics that distinguished Griffo's work from most of the earlier "Venetian" tradition of roman type by Nicolas Jenson and others is the now-normal horizontal cross-stroke of the "e", a letterform which Manutius popularised. [16][73], Monotype licensed and released the font Centaur around the same time as Bembo. [15] Ultimately, old-style fonts like all of these fell out of use with the arrival of the much more geometric Didone types of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book, usually now called De Aetna, was a short 60-page text about a journey to Mount Etna, written by the young Italian humanist poet Pietro Bembo, who would later become a Cardinal, secretary to Pope Leo X and lover of Lucrezia Borgia. The type was made lighter than the desired appearance on paper to take account of the fact that the ink would spread as it soaked into the paper. [52] From these drawings, Benton-pantographs were used to machine metal punches to stamp matrices. This is what a few of the available styles look like. [48], Monotype created several titling designs based on Renaissance printing that could be considered complementary to Bembo: Bembo Titling (based directly on Bembo's capitals, but more delicate to suit a larger text size) and the more geometric Felix Titling in 1934, inspired by humanist capitals drawn by Felice Feliciano in 1463. More about this family. from $35.00. [11], In France, his work inspired many French printers and punchcutters such as Robert Estienne and Claude Garamond from 1530 onwards, even though the typeface of De Aetna with its original capitals was apparently used in only about twelve books between 1496 and 1499. Morison made a number of changes to the 15th century forms. [90] Its roman is based on a slightly earlier period of Italian renaissance printing than Bembo, the work of Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470. 0;PS 001. It was a more eccentric revival of the Aldine face than Bembo, it did not attract as much popularity.
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