Palatino

The font Palatino is a French Renaissance - Antiqua, which is designed in 1949 by Hermann Zapf in a sample size for the D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main and for the book of the threefold reverence, Goethe's thoughts on education to noble humanity of the 200th anniversary of Goethe was used. End of 1950, she appeared normal, italic in the font sizes and semi-bold for both hand work and for the Linotype- set. A slight cut in 1952 published as Aldus - book script.

History

Zapf began with the Italian cities of Florence, Rome and Pisa visited to study first-hand the inscriptions of the Italian Renaissance. His goal was to create a new form of Renaissance Antiqua. Together with the engraver August Rosenberger studied Zapf, such as a font needs to have in order to survive even the harsh offset printing on rather poor quality paper. The end result of the effort was by Giambattista Palatino, an Italian master of calligraphy of the 16th century, named.

The light and open-plan Palatino is still one of the world's most widely used serif fonts for letterpress printing and has been extended as a font family since its release several times. So, in addition the typefaces created bold and extra bold. Since the advent of the digital set exist additions for small caps and old style figures for the normal and bold weights.

Zapf was already in 1990 as one of the most damaged victims of the global typography piracy after the Second World War. In addition to the original version of the Linotype Palatino is also offered as an imitation of other font houses that have deviations from the typeface. Examples of this practice: in Bitstream it is called Zapf Calligraphic 801, SoftMaker Palazzo, at URW Palladio, at Elsner Flake Scangraphic Parliament and in Monotype Book Antiqua. The Palatino heard since the release of Mac OS 7.0 in 1991 for writing the circumference of the Apple operating system. On Windows, the Palatino by Hermann Zapf unauthorized imitation Book Antiqua is since 1993 included with the case of Microsoft Office. Only the operating systems Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista is there an authorized version of Zapf, the Palatino Linotype integrated with Cyrillic and Greek characters.

In 2005, the Palatino font family by Akira Kobayashi and Hermann Zapf has been completely revised and as Palatino nova published in ten sections with a wide variety of optional character set in Linotype GmbH. 2007 appeared the Palatino Sans -serif, which takes the basic forms of Palatino letters. The stems are slightly thickened towards the ends and rounded, giving the font a nearly handwritten character. For the variant Palatino Sans Informal some letter forms have been modified to give a more individual artistic expression to the Scriptures.

In addition to the more mechanical -looking modern Palatino Editions Hermann Zapf's original form from 1950 will continue to be sold. A year before the foundry H. Berthold AG had to declare bankruptcy in 1993, she said digitized at this time Palatino 1950 version. As Berthold Palatino 1992, this scripture to shop for computers, where today there are imitations thereof, the Paxim by Elsner Flake Scangraphic and the Palazzo original SoftMaker.

Aldus

Following the 1950 cast typefaces from a lighter section of the Palatino was designed to factory set of Zapf, who was given the name Palatino book. However, because the officials wanted to publish this section as an independent typeface with stamp and Linotype, he was named Aldus book script.