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Carmina® BT Light

- by Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
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Carmina® BT Light
  Format: Windows TrueType

... is part of the Carmina® BT Font Family, comprising altogether 8 fonts in Windows TrueType format.
Character set features:
261 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Carmina® BT Light
Carmina® BT Light Italic
Exclusively contained in:
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
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Carmina® BT Light
  Format: Windows PostScript

... is part of the Carmina® BT Font Family, comprising altogether 8 fonts in Windows PostScript format.
Character set features:
230 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Carmina® BT Light
Carmina® BT Light Italic
Exclusively contained in:
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

Carmina® BT Light
  Format: Mac PostScript

... is part of the Carmina® BT Font Family, comprising altogether 8 fonts in Mac PostScript format.
Character set features:
230 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Linked font group:
Carmina® BT Light
Carmina® BT Light Italic
Exclusively contained in:
Gudrun Hermann Zapf Collection CD for Mac OS and Windows
Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection Value Pack
Technical information  

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German designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse created the following fonts: Alcuin™ (1991), Ariadne™ (1954), Carmina™ (1986), Christiana® (1991), Colombine™ (1991), Diotima™ (1952), Nofret® (1984) Shakespeare™ (1968), Smaragd™ (1953). Please take a look at the personal designer portrait of Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse.

About Carmina® BT Light ...

Linotype usage sample for Carmina® BT Light
Designer: Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, 1986
At the behest of Matthew Carter, Gudrun Zapf von Hesse (the German bookbinder, calligrapher, and type designer) designed Carmina BT from 1984-86 for Bitstream, Inc. Carmina BT is available in four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), each with its own italic. Although Carmina BT is a neutral design, optimized for use in digital publishing, Zapf von Hesse's unique calligraphic spirit is still quite visible in the family's letterforms.

This is not surprising, as all of Zapf von Hesse's typefaces are calligraphic in nature. Yet Carmina BT is suitable for almost any conceivable digital text application, from book design up through signage use. If you like Carmina BT, take a look at some of the other typefaces from Zapf von Hesse's profilic body of work, including Alcuin, Ariadne, Columbine, Diotima, Shakespeare, and Smaragd.

Additionally, a unique type anthology, The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf Collection, is now available. This contains all of the typefaces from Gudrun Zapf von Hesse available from Linotype, as well as those of her husband, Hermann Zapf.
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