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Dante® Italic Alternate

- by Giovanni Mardersteig
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Dante® Italic Alternate
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Dante® Font Family, comprising altogether 19 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
alternates
13 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Dante® Regular Alternate
Dante® Italic Alternate
Dante® Bold Alternate
Dante® Bold Italic Alternate
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Dante® Italic Alternate
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Dante® Font Family, comprising altogether 25 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
alternates
10 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Dante® Regular Alternate
Dante® Italic Alternate
Dante® Bold Alternate
Dante® Bold Italic Alternate
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Dante® Italic Alternate
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 26.00
  
... is part of the Dante® Font Family, comprising altogether 25 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
alternates
10 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Dante® Regular Alternate
Dante® Italic Alternate
Dante® Bold Alternate
Dante® Bold Italic Alternate
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Product is contained in: In this format only available as single font.
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Documents referring to this product ...

Ron Carpenter – born 1950 in Dorking, England – type designer. 1967: works as a cartographer. 1968: trains in Monotype Corporation’s type department. 1976: works on the quality control of Monotype fonts. 1980: helps Robin Nicolas to design the italics for his Nimrod typeface. 1984: senior type designer of the Monotype Corporation. Designs supplementary weights of Times New Roman™. Fonts: Cantoria™ (1986), Calisto™, Amasis™ (1992), Dante™ (1993). * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of [...]
Robin Nicholas’s early training as an apprentice draftsman let his natural artistic talent fuse with the accuracy and attention to detail required in technical drawing. Typeface design is a similar blend of right- and left-brain activities. Happily for those of us who use fonts, Nicholas’s career path took a turn when he joined the Monotype Type Drawing Office in 1965. After a period of training at Monotype, Nicholas’s first projects involved redrawing master artwork for typefaces licensed [...]
Giovanni Mardersteig created the font Dante™ in 1957. Mardersteig started work on Dante after the Second World War when printing at the Officina Bodoni returned to full production. He drew on his experience of using Monotype Bembo™ and Centaur™ to design a new book face with an italic which worked harmoniously with the roman. Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin, Dante was adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957. The new digital font version has been re drawn, by Monotype's Ron [...]

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Designer: Giovanni Mardersteig, 1957
Dante® Italic Alternate belongs to the Dante® Font Family which is part of the Monotype Originals.
Dante was designed by Giovanni Mardersteig. Mardersteig started work on Dante after the Second World War when printing at the Officina Bodoni returned to full production. He drew on his experience of using Monotype Bembo and Centaur to design a new book face with an italic which worked harmoniously with the roman. Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin, Dante was adapted for mechanical composition by Monotype in 1957. The new digital font version has been re drawn, by Monotype's Ron Carpenter, free from any restrictions imposed by hot metal technology. The Dante font family was issued in 1993 in a range of three weights with a set of titling capitals. Dante is a beautiful book face which can also be used to good effect in magazines, periodicals etc.

Dante is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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