Aldus (typeface)

Aldus (typeface)

Infobox font
name = Aldus


style = Serif
date = 1954
creator = Hermann Zapf
foundry = Linotype

Aldus is an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf in 1954. It is named for Aldus Manutius, the famous fifteenth century Venetian printer.

Aldus was designed as a book weight text face companion for Palatino, which Zapf considered to be a display typeface. Aldus is designed to complement Palatino, but with a lighter stroke weight, more open counters, and better suited for text in smaller point sizes.

Aldus nova

Aldus nova was designed with Akira Kobayashi. A bold weight is added into the font family. The character set support is similar to Palatino nova, but Greek and Cyrillic are not available in book weight fonts. The bar in ampersand is only available in book roman font.

References

*Blackwell, Lewis. "20th Century Type." Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
*Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
*Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. "The Encyclopædia of Type Faces." Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
*Macmillan, Neil. "An A–Z of Type Designers." Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
*Zapf, Hermann. "Manuale Typographicum." The MIT Press: 1970. ISBN 0-262-24011-4.

External links

* [http://www.linotype.com/en/30/aldus-family.html Aldus at Linotype]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/109957/aldusnova-family.html Aldus nova Font Family - by Hermann Zapf, Akira Kobayashi]


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