Corona® Font Family

Corona® Roman (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Corona® Italic (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Corona® Bold Face #2 (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Corona® Complete Family Value Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 69.00

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), [...]

Corona was designed by C.H. Griffith and appeared with Mergenthaler Linotype in 1941. It is a part of Griffith's 'Legibility Group', on which he began working in 1922 and which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint. Corona is based on forms of the Ionic type, perhaps the first style designed specifically for newspapers. The font is relatively small but gives an impression of strength and modernity.