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Bembo

Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text. It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".…

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Monotype history

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Digitisations and derivatives

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Category
Serif
Classification
Garalde Old-style
Date created
1495–96, 1928–29
Designers
Francesco Griffo · Giovanni Antonio Tagliente · Monotype drawing office · Alfred Fairbank
Foundry
Monotype
Shown here
ET Bembo

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Bembo

Nodes124
Edges123
Triples299
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016129
Components1

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Bembo

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related to history · 50
Bembo → Aetna Angelum Chabrielem, Aldine, Aldus Manutius, Art Nouveau, Artistically, Arts, At, Bembo's, Bologna, Both, Cardinal, Crafts, De Aetna, Didone, February, Francesco, Giovanni Mardersteig, Greek, Griffo, Griffo's
related to External links · 28
Bembo → An, Anthony Panizzi, Archived, Bembo Infant, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Bologna, Cardo FontBorgia ProSpecimen, Danish, De Aetna, Didone, Digital, Firenze, Five Hundred Years, Fonts, Francesco, Griffo-inspired, Internet Archive, Kevin Steele, MA, Monotype
related to Griffo and Dante · 24
Bembo → Aldine, Although Bembo, British, Charles Malin, Dante, Dante Semi Bold Series, Dante Titling Series, Didot-sizes, Giovanni Mardersteig, Griffo, Griffo's, His, In, It, John Dreyfus, Malin, Mardersteig, Mardersteig's, Monotype, Monotype Dante Series
related to Free and open-source fonts · 23
Bembo → Cardo, CTAN, Daniel Benjamin Miller, David, Edward Tufte, ET Bembo, ET Book, ETbb, Greek, He, Hebrew, In, LaTeX Project Public License, Michael Sharpe, MIT License, Perry, September, SIL OFL, SIL Open Font License, The Cardo
related to 20th century · 21
Bembo → After, Alfred Fairbank, Antonio Blado, Arrighi, Bembo Condensed Italic, Bembo's, Centaur, Edward Johnston, Fairbank's, Fairbank-based, Frederic Warde, Griffo, Hot, It, Italian, Monotype, Other, Poliphilus Monotype, Tagliente, The
related to Italic · 20
Bembo → Another, Arrighi, Bembo's, Excellent Writing, France, Giovannantonio, Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, Griffo, He, His, It, Ludovico Vicentino, Manutius, Morison, Ornament, Splendour, Tagliente, Tagliente's, The True Art, Venice
related to Poliphilus and Blado · 20
Bembo → Antonio Blado, Arrighi, Bembo's, Blado, De Aetna, English, Greek-influenced, Griffo, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Italian, Latin, Made, Manutius's, Medici Society, Monotype, Monotype's, Morison, Poliphilus, Poliphilus Modernised, Unlike Bembo
related to Reception · 18
Bembo → Among, Britain, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press's, Digital, For, HMSO, It, Jeff Price, John Bell, Monotype's, Morison, Mutiny, Nick Shinn, Oxford University Press, Roger Black, The Great Typefaces, Typographic Specimens
related to Other Griffo-inspired fonts · 16
Bembo → Agmena, Apple Books, Bitstream, Cyrillic, Downer's, Greek, Griffo, Intended, Iowan Old Style, It, John Downer, Jovica Veljović, Linotype, Roman, Serbian, With
related to Centaur · 14
Bembo → American, Arrighi, Bruce Rogers, Centaur, Compared, Frederic Warde, It, Italian, Its, Like Bembo, Monotype, Nicolas Jenson, Penguin, Venice

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monotype italic printing griffo design used also type book based work created roman font monotype's typeface metal capitals original morison

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BemboCategorySerif1.00infobox
BemboClassificationGaralde Old-style1.00infobox
BemboDate created1495–96, 1928–291.00infobox
BemboDesignersFrancesco Griffo1.00infobox
BemboDesignersGiovanni Antonio Tagliente1.00infobox
BemboDesignersMonotype drawing office1.00infobox
BemboDesignersAlfred Fairbank1.00infobox
BemboFoundryMonotype1.00infobox
BemboShown hereET Bembo1.00infobox
BemboVariationsBembo Titling1.00infobox
BemboVariationsBembo Condensed Italic (Fairbank)1.00infobox
Bembois aserif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 19280.90text
Bembois aall-time classic roman0.90text

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