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ITC Legacy Sans® font family

Designed by  Ronald Arnholm in 1992

Up to 15 Typefaces / 2 Value Packs
Supports at least 33 languages (Pro / OT CFF)

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Supports up to 74 languages.

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Supports up to 15 OpenType features.

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ITC Legacy¿ was designed by American Ronald Arnholm, who was first inspired to develop the typeface when he was a graduate student at Yale. In a type history class, he studied the 1470 book by Eusebius that was printed in the roman type of Nicolas Jenson. Arnholm worked for years to create his own interpretation of the Jenson roman, and he succeeded in capturing much of its beauty and character. As Jenson did not include a companion italic, Arnholm turned to the sixteenth-century types of Claude Garamond for inspiration for the italics of ITC Legacy. Arnholm was so taken by the strength and integrity of these oldstyle seriffed forms that he used their essential skeletal structures to develop a full set of sans serif faces. ITC Legacy includes a complete family of weights from book to ultra, with Old style Figures and small caps, making this a good choice for detailed book typography or multi-faceted graphic design projects.

In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably the first non-German printer of movable type, and he produced about 150 editions. Though his punches have vanished, his books have not, and those produced from about 1470 until his death in 1480 have served as a source of inspiration for type designers over centuries. His Roman type is often called the first true Roman." Notable in almost all Jensonian Romans is the angled crossbar on the lowercase e, which is known as the "Venetian Oldstyle e."

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Book

-  3 variants
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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Book Italic

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Bold

-  3 variants
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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Bold Italic

-  3 variants
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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Medium

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Medium Italic

-  3 variants
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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Ultra

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ITC Legacy Sans® Book SC

-  1 variant
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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Condensed Book

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Condensed Medium

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Condensed Bold

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ITC Legacy Sans® Pro Condensed Ultra

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