Font Designer – Francesco Griffo
1495: works with Aldus Manutius, for whom he cuts Greek alphabets and in 1501 an italic typeface for a Virgil edition. 1496: cuts the alphabet for Pietro Bembo’s "De Aetna", . 1502: parts company with Aldus Manutius. 1503: cuts an italic typeface for the printer Gershom Soncino in Fano. 1516: opens his own printing workshop in Bologna. He cuts his third italic alphabet for his first publication.
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
Griffo Classico is based on the roman and italic types cut by Francesco Griffo at the end of the 15th century. Griffo Classico was designed in 1993 by Franko Luin.