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Excelsior® Central European Roman
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| Price: | US$ 26.00 |
| ... is part of the Excelsior® Font Family, comprising altogether 10 fonts in Windows PostScript format. |
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Excelsior® Central European Roman
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| Price: | US$ 26.00 |
| ... is part of the Excelsior® Font Family, comprising altogether 10 fonts in Mac PostScript format. |
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1. Georgia font
Georgia® is a Windows system font, and is not part of the Linotype portfolio. Alternative typefaces are Excelsior™, Edison™ and Egyptienne F™.
Chauncey H. Griffith – born 1879 in Irontown/Ohio, USA, died 1956 in Butler/N.Y., USA – typesetter, machine compositor.
1915: – becomes assistant to the president of Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Newspaper typesetting specialist. 1936: vice president of Mergenthaler Linotype with responsibility for typographic development.
Fonts: Ionic No 5 (1926), Ionic Condensed (1927), Papst (1928–1931), Poster Bodoni™ (1929), Textype (1929), Granjon™ bold (1930), Excelsior™ (1931), Janson (1932), [...]
Initial concepts for comprehensive type systems surfaced as early as the 1930s, yet they remained the exception. In the days of hot-metal typesetting, handbooks generally recommended creating typeface mixtures from a single type family, a family being understood as including all of a typeface’s weights, such as light, normal, semi-bold, and bold, and including all of the italic weights as well. A well-rounded type family also includes small caps, tabular and old-style figures. These days, the [...]
About Excelsior® Central European Roman ...
Designer: Chauncey H. Griffith, 1931
Excelsior® Central European Roman belongs to the Excelsior® Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Before designing this font, C.H. Griffith consulted the results of a survey of optometrists regarding optimal legibility. Excelsior font was then presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931 and remains one of the most legible and popular fonts worldwide.
Search this or similar products by the following keywords: 1930s, 30s, Ads, Advertisment, Advertisments, anno 1930, Announcements, Book, Business Cards, Casual, Catalogs, Catalogues, CE, Celebration, Celebrations, central european, certificate, Cheap, Dictionaries, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia, Encyclopedia, Headline, Inexpensive, Instructions, Invitation, Lexica, Listings, Magazine, Manuals, Newsletters, Newspaper, Party, Professional, Readable, Serif, Slab Serif, Static, Text, Urkunde.
Excelsior is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
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XSF-Fonts are OpenType or TrueType fonts with an excellent appearance on screen at small sizes or low resolutions – especially engineered and optimized for exceptionally readable typefaces on computer screens using Microsoft® Windows operating systems.
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