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Electra® font family

Designed by  William Addison Dwiggins in 1935

Up to 8 Typefaces / 1 Value Packs
Supports at least 21 languages (Std / OT CFF)

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Supports up to 50 languages.

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Supports up to 11 OpenType features.

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Electra is an original face designed for Linotype in 1935 by William. A. Dwiggins, the eminent American artist and illustrator who also created the Caledonia series. The type, which falls into the 'modern' family of type styles, is not based upon any traditional model and is not an attempt to revive or reconstruct any historic type. Because it avoids the extreme contrast of thick and thin elements that mark most modern faces, Electra provides a new 'texture' in book pages. Although in x-height it is almost large as Times Roman, the narrow set of Electra makes it very economical in composition. The italic is really a sloped roman, of almost the same weight as the roman; it is so comfortable to read that it can be used for whole texts, and is particularly suitable for poetry.
In 1988 Linotype has extended the Electra to a complete type family with four different weights, it was made with true Italics and as a specialty was made available in a lighter end more elegant Display version.
The Caravan fonts offer a broad variety of fitting ornaments and border elements which had been designed by Dwiggins.
Electra had received a Certificate for Typographic Excellence in Type Design in 1998 from the Type Directors Club ( TDC ) of New York

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Electra® Std Roman

-  2 variants
From US$ 39
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Electra® Std Bold

-  2 variants
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Electra® Std Bold Cursive

-  2 variants
From US$ 39
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Electra® Std Display Bold Cursive

-  2 variants
From US$ 39.99
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Electra® Std Display Bold

-  2 variants
From US$ 39.99
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Electra® Std Cursive

-  2 variants
From US$ 39
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Electra® Std Display Cursive

-  2 variants
From US$ 39.99
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Electra® Std Display Roman

-  2 variants
From US$ 39.99
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