![]() ![]() A Dip in the Ocean: the Complete Recordings – Now on Spotify. ![]() Unfortunately Griffo, the creator of this typeface, had an unfortunate end and was arrested and finally executed for killing his son-in-law with an iron bar. The essay became very popular but it was the typeface which became much more famous, in use right up to the present day. He based it on pure Roman forms and also introduced for the first time an italic form based on a cursive handwritten style. It comes from the time of Aldus Manutius, a powerful renaissance scholar, printer and publisher in Venice who employed a genius punch cutter named Francesco Griffo who in turn was responsible for creating a new alphabet of moveable type designed specially for an essay written by the literary scholar Cardinal Bembo which Aldus Manutius was publishing. He introduced personal or pocket editions of the classics in Latin and Greek that all could own, as well as works by contemporaries Pietro Bembo and Erasmus. It is probably the most elegant of book text faces that I use and only aficionados will know of its curious provenance. Although Bembo looks as fresh as a daisy and is quite at home in a newly printed book it is in fact over 500 years old. Venetian scholar, who became a publisher and printer when he founded the Aldine Press in 1495. Anyone who is familiar with typefaces (it’s my job) will know the name Bembo. ![]()
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