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Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman

- by Chauncey H. Griffith
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Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
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Price: US$ 195.00

... is part of the Excelsior® Font Family, comprising altogether 7 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro cyrillic
271 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
Excelsior® Cyrillic Italic
Excelsior® Cyrillic Bold
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Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
LT_51677.ttf
Windows menu name:
Excelsior LT CYR
PostScript name:
ExcelsiorLTCYR-Roman
PostScript full name:
Excelsior LT Cyrillic Roman
Catalog material number:
35651677

Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
Put the whole Excelsior® Font Family into your shopping cart Complete Excelsior® Font Family
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Price: US$ 273.00

... is part of the Excelsior® Font Family, comprising altogether 10 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro cyrillic
269 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
Excelsior® Cyrillic Italic
Excelsior® Cyrillic Bold
Is in Cart Complete font group 
into cart
Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
LT_51677.pfb
Windows menu name:
Excelsior LT CYR
PostScript name:
ExcelsiorLTCYR-Roman
PostScript full name:
Excelsior LT Cyrillic Roman
Catalog material number:
36151677

Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
Put the whole Excelsior® Font Family into your shopping cart Complete Excelsior® Font Family
(10 fonts) to shopping cart
Price: US$ 273.00

... is part of the Excelsior® Font Family, comprising altogether 10 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro cyrillic
269 characters
Character maps:
Linked font group:
Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
Excelsior® Cyrillic Italic
Excelsior® Cyrillic Bold
Is in Cart Complete font group 
into cart
Product is contained in:
Technical information
 
Digital data from:
Technical font names:
File name:
ExcelLTCYRRom
PostScript name:
ExcelsiorLTCYR-Roman
PostScript full name:
Excelsior LT Cyrillic Roman
Catalog material number:
36051677

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See below Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman or other typefaces from the Excelsior® Font Family in real usage ...

Source:
Hannoversche Allgemeine
Fonts shown:
Frutiger® Font Family, Excelsior® Font Family, Linotype Centennial® Font Family

Documents referring to this product ...

Georgia® is a Windows system font, and is not part of the Linotype portfolio. Alternative typefaces are Excelsior™, Edison™ and Egyptienne F™.
Chauncey H. Griffith – born 1879 in Irontown/Ohio, USA, died 1956 in Butler/N.Y., USA – typesetter, machine compositor. 1915: – becomes assistant to the president of Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Newspaper typesetting specialist. 1936: vice president of Mergenthaler Linotype with responsibility for typographic development. Fonts: Ionic No 5 (1926), Ionic Condensed (1927), Papst (1928–1931), Poster Bodoni™ (1929), Textype (1929), Granjon™ bold (1930), Excelsior™ (1931), Janson (1932), [...]
Initial concepts for comprehensive type systems surfaced as early as the 1930s, yet they remained the exception. In the days of hot-metal typesetting, handbooks generally recommended creating typeface mixtures from a single type family, a family being understood as including all of a typeface’s weights, such as light, normal, semi-bold, and bold, and including all of the italic weights as well. A well-rounded type family also includes small caps, tabular and old-style figures. These days, the [...]

About Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman ...

Linotype usage sample for Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman
Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith, 1931
Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman belongs to the Excelsior® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Before designing this font, C.H. Griffith consulted the results of a survey of optometrists regarding optimal legibility. Excelsior font was then presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931 and remains one of the most legible and popular fonts worldwide.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1930s, 30s, Ads, Advertisment, Advertisments, anno 1930, Announcements, Book, Business Cards, Casual, Catalogs, Catalogues, Celebration, Celebrations, certificate, Cheap, cyrillic, Dictionaries, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia, Encyclopedia, Headline, Inexpensive, Instructions, Invitation, Lexica, Listings, Magazine, Manuals, Newsletters, Newspaper, Party, Professional, Readable, Serif, Slab Serif, Static, Text, Urkunde.

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