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Athenaeum™ Initial Negative

- by Alessandro Butti, Aldo Novarese
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Athenaeum™ Std Initial Negative
  Format: OpenType Std

Price: US$ 29.00
  
... is part of the Athenaeum™ Font Family, comprising altogether 5 fonts in OpenType Std format.
Character set features:
titling
246 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
The Monotype Library OpenType Edition Version Two
Athenaeum™ Std Value Pack
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Athenaeum™ Initial Negative
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Athenaeum™ Font Family, comprising altogether 5 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
29 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
Athenaeum™ Value Pack
Technical information  

Athenaeum™ Initial Negative
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Athenaeum™ Font Family, comprising altogether 5 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
28 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
Athenaeum™ Value Pack
Technical information  

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Documents referring to this product ...

Aldo Novarese – born 29.6.1920 in Pontetura Monferrato, Italy, died 16.9.1995 in Turin, Italy – type designer, teacher. 1931-33: Attends the Scuola Arteri Stampatori in Turin, where he learns woodcut, copper engraving and lithography. 1933-36: attends the Scuola Tipografica Guiseppe Vigliandi Paravia in Turin. 1936: joins the Nebiolo type foundry in Turin as a draftsman. 1938: is awarded a gold medal in the national Ludi Juveniles art competition. 1948-58: teaches graphic drawing at the [...]
Alessandro Butti – born 1893, died 1959 in Turin, Italy – type designer, teacher. Art director of the Nebiolo type foundry in Turin. Taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia. Fonts: Paganini (with A. Bertieri, 1928), Quirius (1939), Athenaeum™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1945), Normandia (with Aldo Novarese, 1946–49), Rondine (1948), Augustea™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1951), Fluidum (1951), Microgramma™ (with Aldo Novarese, 1952). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques [...]

About Athenaeum™ Initial Negative ...

Linotype usage sample for Athenaeum™ Std Initial Negative
Designer: Alessandro Butti / Aldo Novarese, 1945
Athenaeum™ Initial Negative belongs to the Athenaeum™ Font Family which is part of the Monotype Originals.
Athenaeum was released in 1945 by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, probably for the Niebolo foundry in Turin, for whom this duo designed many successful types. Athenaeum is an Old Style face with strong calligraphic influence. The Athenaeum font family includes a set of decorative initials illustrated with a symbol beginning, resembling early paper watermarks.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: Decorative.

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