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Sistina® font family
Designed by Hermann Zapf in 1950
Up to 1 Family
Supports at least 33 languages (Pro / OT CFF)
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Supports up to 74 languages.
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Supports up to 6 OpenType features.
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Sistina, designed by Hermann Zapf in 1950 was first named Aurelia Titling. It is a heavy supplement to the Michelangelo Titling based on studies of inscriptions in Rome. First release in hotmetal at D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt in 1951. Sistina was originally an all caps font. The digital version from Linotype contains small caps. Hermann Zapf together with Akira Kobayashi, type director from Linotype had made a new revised version of Sistina now named as Palatino Imperial" in the Palatino nova type family, a
