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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Created in 1914 by Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), Centaur was first released to the general public in 1929. It was originally designed to print The Centaur, by Maurice de Guérin. And it’s beautiful.
Around 1900, Rogers had the opportunity to examine an example of the print work of Nicolas Jenson. The book, a work of Eusebius, was printed in 1470, and Jenson’s type caught Rogers’ attention. He was so captivated by the type that he began to try to develop a new typeface based on Jenson’s original. He created several typefaces before Centaur, but was unsatisfied with them.
Writing about the experience of drawing, tracing over, enlargements of the original letters, Rogers said that he believed the original lower-case letters were cut from hand-written letterforms. The models for the upper-case were drawn but the lower-case were written.
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