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Edison™ Com Book
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| Price: | US$ 65.00 |
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| ... is part of the Edison™ Font Family, comprising altogether 5 fonts in OpenType Com format. |
Character set features:
388 characters
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Technical information
OpenType outline flavour:
OTF - TrueType flavoured
File name: EdisonCom-Book.ttf Windows menu name: Edison Com Book PostScript name: EdisonCom-Book PostScript full name: Edison Com Book |
Catalog material number:
36841484
Other families by this designer ...
Documents referring to this product ...
1. Georgia font
Georgia® is a Windows system font, and is not part of the Linotype portfolio. Alternative typefaces are Excelsior™, Edison™ and Egyptienne F™.
German designer Hermann Zapf created the following fonts:
Aldus® (1954), Aldus Nova (2005), Aurelia™ (1983), Comenius® Antiqua BQ (1976), Edison™ (1978), Kompakt™ (1954), Marconi® (1976), Medici® Script (1971), Melior® (1952), Noris Script® (1976), Optima® (1958), Optima nova (2002), Orion™ (1974), Palatino™® (1950), Palatino nova (2005), Palatino™ Sans (2006), Saphir™ (1953), Sistina® (1950), Vario™ (1982), Venture™ (1969), Linotype Zapf Essentials™ (2002), [...]
About Edison™ Book ...
Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1978
Edison™ Book belongs to the Edison™ Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Edison is the result of Hermann Zapf's wish to create a typeface with maximum legibility for the Digiset typesetting machine (a typesetter produced by the German firm Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH in Kiel). The lowercase letters of Edison are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced. The 8 point size - normally used for newspapers - look more like 9,5 point. This enlarged x-height of the Edison lowercase letters was the result of tests on newspaper pages with bad (gray) inking to find the most comfortable proportions and the weight for the basic roman. This all is important because good typefaces tailored to the purpose of getting information easily from the printed page is of the same importance as the presentation of the message itself.
Hermann Zapf's Edison is a modern, wilful newspaper font. Its free and individual forms mark this font as a newsprint font of the new generation. The strong strokes of Edison can give an impression of a slab serif font and its robust forms make this font very flexible. Even inferior paper and newsprint techniques cannot disturb Edison's characters or classic impression.
In 1990, Linotype AG merged with Dr.-Ing Rudolf Hell GmbH, forming the Linotype-Hell AG (today Linotype GmbH). Since then, Linotype has been the official source of all fonts that were originally designed for the Hell Corporation. Linotype has also improved the typefaces using new technologies, including OpenType.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1970s, 70s, anno 1970, Book, Catalogs, Catalogues, CE, Central European, Com, Instructions, Magazine, Manuals, Menus, Newsletters, Newspaper, Professional, Readable, Serif, Text.
Edison is a trademark of Linotype Corp. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
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The Platinum Collection is the exclusive series of optimized classic typefaces from the Linotype Library.
XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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