#Bembo typeface history pdf
#Bembo typeface history software

No italic was used in theĪldine 'de Aetna' work so another source was needed. A beautiful design with tall ascending lowercase and elegant letterforms,īembo has been a favourite for book setting for over 70 years. Originally drawn by Monotype in 1929, Bembo was inspired by the types cutīy Francesco Griffo and used by Aldus Manutius in 1495 to print Cardinal Bembo's tract

#Bembo typeface history pdf

UK site has a better description (and a PDF sample): Sorry for the double post, but Monotype's And so why not make Carter's Bembo widely available? Why not call it MC Bembo? Is surely part of the justification for universities not having to pay taxes). I think the job of great universities is the production and distribution of knowledge (which Both these names obliterate those who actually had something to do with creating the typeface: Francesco Griffo, Pietro Bembo, Aldus Manutius, Stanley Morison, and Matthew Carter. Reach the request page (by means of one's internal Yale password), checking off theĬorporately incorrect usage ('external publications,' for example) causes the victim to beĪ few months ago 'Yale' was called 'YaleDesign'.

The practical effect is that the long-awaited redesign of Bembo by Matthew Carter has been locked up by Yale, the university not the typeface.Īccess for downloading the typeface 'Yale' is through a tricky form, so that once you Alas it is a proprietary typeface, meant only for Yale University internal use. The great Matthew Carter has designed a Bembo-like typeface 'Yale', which is meant for the University's print and web publications. Perhaps a commercial type house will produce a good computer Bembo someday soon. ET Bembo is used in 'The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.' It is a typeface just to get my books from lead to computer I'm not in the type distribution business so it will not be made available.

So we made our own computer version and also made a some design changes (ligatures, several problems with the pi font, some letterforms, creation of a semibold). When converted to an electronic font, Monotype Bembo became thin and spindly (the computer people ignored 'squeeze,' the slight spreading of ink when the lead type hits the paper). My earlier books on analytical design were set in lead (!) in Monotype Bembo, an excellent book font. It will be used in my next book, Beautiful Evidence.

#Bembo typeface history software

Nowadays I don't have the time or interest to get involved with a software house.ĮT Bembo is a Bembo-like font for the computer designed by Dmitry Krasny, Bonnie Scranton, and myself.

After SPSS took over Sigma Plot, the thing seemed to disappear. Years ago a scientific graphing program, Sigma Plot, constructed graphic templates of about 40 of my designs for statistical graphics in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.