Excelsior® Font Family

Excelsior® Roman (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Italic (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Bold (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Insertio (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 39.00 US$

Excelsior® Central European Roman (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Central European Italic (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Central European Bold (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Cyrillic Roman (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Cyrillic Italic (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior® Cyrillic Bold (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 26.00 US$

Excelsior Central European Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 69.00 US$

Excelsior Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 79.00 US$

Excelsior Cyrillic Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) Más detalles ... Añadir al carrito Preciodesde: 69.00 US$

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.