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Bembo typeface 19457/2/2023 While most printers of the Arts and Crafts movement of the previous sixty years had been more interested in the slightly earlier typefaces of Nicolas Jenson, Morison greatly admired Aldus Manutius' typeface above others of the period. These were used as a master to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. , Not explicitly influenced by Bembo but also influenced by Griffo is Minion by Slimbach. I calmed down enough to recall that the typeface was originally designed for metal type, and most of the specimens and texts I saw were set in metal type in text size. It was created under the influence of Monotype executive and printing historian Stanley Morison by the design team at the Monotype factory in Salfords, Surrey, south of London. Monotype released a new digital version, called Bembo Book, in 2005. , Griffo was one of the first punchcutters to fully express the character of the humanist hand that contemporaries preferred for manuscripts of classics and literary texts, in distinction to the book hand humanists dismissed as a gothic hand or the everyday chancery hand. This made the proportions of the digital font appear wrong, failing to match the subtlety of the metal type and phototypesetting release, which was released in three different optical sizes for different print sizes. The iteration that we currently use was created by Stanley Morison for The Monotype Corporation in 1929.
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