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Orion™ Italic

- by Hermann Zapf
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Orion™ Pro Italic
  Format: OpenType Pro

Price: US$ 65.00
  
... is part of the Orion™ Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in OpenType Pro format.
Character set features:
latinext isoadobe adobece
415 characters
Linked font group:
Orion™ Pro Roman
Orion™ Pro Italic
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Product is contained in: In this format only available as single font.
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Orion™ Italic
  Format: Windows TrueType

Price: US$ 39.00
  
... is part of the Orion™ Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
euro
245 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Orion™ Roman
Orion™ Italic
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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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Orion™ Italic
  Format: Windows PostScript

Price: US$ 39.00
  
... is part of the Orion™ Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
246 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Orion™ Roman
Orion™ Italic
Put the core family into shopping cart Add font group
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  

Orion™ Italic
  Format: Mac PostScript

Price: US$ 39.00
  
... is part of the Orion™ Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
euro
248 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Orion™ Roman
Orion™ Italic
Put the core family into shopping cart Add font group
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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Documents referring to this product ...

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 Orion™ Italic ...

Linotype usage sample for Orion™ Pro Italic
Designer: Hermann Zapf, 1974
Orion™ Italic belongs to the Orion™ Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
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.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1970s, 70s, anno 1970, Readable, Serif.

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