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1920s

I use this space to gather notes and samples of typefaces. My purpose here is not to be exhaustive, but to learn and be useful in the process.


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Bembo was developed in 1929, based on a type cut in 1495 by Francesco Griffo.

Designed by Paul Renner between 1924 and 1926, Futura was released commercially in 1927 by the Bauer Type Foundry in Frankfurt, Germany.

Notes and sources:

Alexander Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Ellen Lupton, Thinking With Type
Phillip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design
Alan Bartram, Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Wikipedia, among others. Some images from Wikipedia are used under the Creative Commons license, and have been resized.