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Sistina® Regular

- by Hermann Zapf
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Sistina® Pro Regular
  Format: OpenType Pro

Price: US$ 39.00
  
Character set features:
latinext isoadobe adobece
418 characters
Product is contained in: In this format only available as single font.
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Sistina® Regular
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 39.00
  
Character set features:
euro smallcaps
253 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
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Sistina® Regular
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 39.00
  
Character set features:
euro smallcaps
253 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

Sistina® Regular
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 39.00
  
Character set features:
euro smallcaps
253 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
GoldEdition 2.0 DVD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

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German designer Hermann Zapf created the following fonts: Aldus® (1954), Aldus Nova (2005), Aurelia™ (1983), Comenius® Antiqua BQ (1976), Edison™ (1978), Kompakt™ (1954), Marconi® (1976), Medici® Script (1971), Melior® (1952), Noris Script® (1976), Optima® (1958), Optima nova (2002), Orion™ (1974), Palatino™® (1950), Palatino nova (2005), Palatino™ Sans (2006), Saphir™ (1953), Sistina® (1950), Vario™ (1982), Venture™ (1969), Virtuosa® Classic (2009), [...]
Orion™ Hermann Zapf made his first scetches for Orion in 1963. Zapf's aim was to create a neutral textface which can be ideally used as a newspaper face. Its strokethickness and open letterforms also fits well for book and magazine production. The final two weights of Orion were released in 1974 for the Linofilm photocomposing machine. Optima™ Optima was designed by Hermann Zapf and is his most successful typeface. In 1950, Zapf made his first sketches while visiting the Santa Croce [...]

About Sistina® Regular ...

Linotype usage sample for Sistina® Pro Regular
Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1950
Sistina® Regular belongs to the Sistina® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Sistina, designed by Hermann Zapf in 1950 was first named Aurelia Titling. It is a heavy supplement to the Michelangelo Titling based on studies of inscriptions in Rome. First release in hotmetal at D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt in 1951. Sistina was originally an all caps font. The digital version from Linotype contains small caps. Hermann Zapf together with Akira Kobayashi, type director from Linotype had made a new revised version of Sistina now named as "Palatino Imperial" in the Palatino nova type family, a Platinum Collection product from Linotype.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1940s, 40s, anno 1940, Capital Letters, Caps Only, Classic, Decorative, Headline, Historic, Italian, SC, Serif, Small Caps, Static, Upper Case.

Sistina is a trademark of Linotype GmbH registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.

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