Aldus (typeface)
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| Typeface | Aldus |
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| Category | Serif |
| Designer(s) | Hermann Zapf |
| Foundry | Linotype |
Aldus is an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf in 1954. It is named for Aldus Manutius, the famous fifteenth century Venetian printer.
Aldus was designed as a bookweight text face companion for Palatino, which Zapf considered to be a display face. Aldus is designed to complement Palatino, but with a lighter stroke weight, more open counters, and better suited for text in smaller point sizes.
[edit] References
- Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
- Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopædia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
- Zapf, Hermann. Manuale Typographicum. The MIT Press: 1970. ISBN 0-262-24011-4.
