Electra® font family
Designed by William Addison Dwiggins in 1935
Electra is an original face designed for Linotype in 1935 by William. A. Dwiggins , the eminent American artist and illustrator who also created the Caledonia series. The type, which falls into the 'modern' family of type styles, is not based upon any traditional model and is not an attempt to revive or reconstruct any historic type. Because it avoids the extreme contrast of thick and thin elements that mark most modern faces, Electra provides a new 'texture' in book pages. Although in x-height it is almost large as Times Roman, the narrow set of Electra makes it very economical in composition. The italic is really a sloped roman, of almost the same weight as the roman; it is so comfortable to read that it can be used for whole texts, and is particularly suitable for poetry.
In 1988 Linotype has extended the Electra to a complete type family with four different weights, it was made with true Italics and as a specialty was made available in a lighter end more elegant Display version.
TheCaravan fonts offer a broad variety of fitting ornaments and border elements which had been designed by Dwiggins .
Electra had received a Certificate for Typographic Excellence in Type Design in 1998 from the Type Directors Club ( TDC ) of New York
In 1988 Linotype has extended the Electra to a complete type family with four different weights, it was made with true Italics and as a specialty was made available in a lighter end more elegant Display version.
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Electra had received a Certificate for Typographic Excellence in Type Design in 1998 from the Type Directors Club ( TDC ) of New York
Electra Display Roman
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Electra
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Technical details
OpenType outline flavour:
TTF - TrueType-Outlines
Technical font names:
File name: ElectraLTStd-Display.ttf
Windows menu name: Electra LT Std Display
PostScript name: , ElectraLTStd-Display
PostScript full name: , Electra LT Std Display
Windows menu name: Electra LT Std Display
PostScript name: , ElectraLTStd-Display
PostScript full name: , Electra LT Std Display
Catalog number:
168459035
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