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Francesco Griffo, De Aetna, model for Garamond typeface, 1495.

The 1929 typeface Bembo, is based primarily upon that specimen. Francesco Griffo (Francesco da Bologna) Bembo typeface, c. The italic style of the Bembo goes back to a sample book by the Italian callist Giovanni Tagliente from 1524.īased on these templates, the Bembo used today was redrawn for Monotype in 1929 by the type artist Stanley Morison (according to other sources by Alfred Fairbank ) and named after Bembo. Centaur also shows the influence of types cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 for a small book titled De Aetna written by Pietro Bembo. The De Aetna-Type formed the basis for the much better known Garamond, but has more angular serifs than this. Some sources cite the publication of Cardinal Bembos De Aetna as 1493 or 1495. Posterity has come to regard the Bembo type as Alduss and Griffos masterpiece.' Allan Haley, Typographic Milestones. This work was published in February 1496 (according to the Venetian calendar of 1495) in Aldo Manuzio's print shop. So famous did it become that it influenced typeface design for generations. The De Aetna-Type was cut for printing the treatise De Aetna by the young humanist and later Cardinal Pietro Bembo. Griffo’s design is considered one of the first of the old style typefaces, which include Garamond, that were used as staple text types in Europe for two hundred years. The Bembo is a 1929 for the company Monotype redrawn font that of De Aetna Type the Venetian Francesco Griffo is based on the 1496th Bembo was modeled on typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius’ printing of De Aetna in 1495 in Venice, a book by classicist Pietro Bembo about his visit to Mount Etna.