Memphis® Medium Italic

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), [...]

Rudolf Wolf – born 2. 1. 1895 in Hechingen, Germany, died 7. 9. 1942 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany – advertising manager, type designer, teacher. Studied at the university in Frankfurt am Main. Ph. D. 1922–42: works as advertising manager for D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt am Main, where he is responsible for type design. Font: Memphis™ (1930). Publication: "Fraktur und Antiqua", Frankfurt am Main 1934. * TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout [...]

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 [...]

Designer: Rudolf Wolf, 1930

Memphis® Medium Italic belongs to the Memphis® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.