Designed by Herb
Lubalin and Tony
Di Spigna. Initially released in 1972 in Regular and Bold
weights. Four more weights (Light, Extra Bold, Heavy, Black)
followed in 1974 [U&lc].
The original version came with eleven
alternates for ‘aefkrstzEL8’.
VGC offered additional alternates, incl. forms w/ both pointed
and blunt apexes in the bolder weights, and a circular ‘0’
[VGC 1973]. Berthold had similar alts w/
blunt apexes for the Bold and Heavy [Berthold 1982]. Four weights were adopted
by Letraset; first Regular, Bold, Heavy (w/ alts) [Letraset 1976]
and later also Black. [Letraset 1980] Mecanorma adopted Light,
Regular, Black, and Outline in 1980 [More…
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Tony Di Spigna. Initially released in 1972 in Regular and Bold weights. Four more weights (Light, Extra Bold, Heavy, Black) followed in 1974 [U&lc]. The original version came with eleven alternates for ‘aefkrstzEL8’.
VGC offered additional alternates, incl. forms w/ both pointed and blunt apexes in the bolder weights, and a circular ‘0’ [VGC 1973]. Berthold had similar alts w/ blunt apexes for the Bold and Heavy [Berthold 1982]. Four weights were adopted by Letraset; first Regular, Bold, Heavy (w/ alts) [Letraset 1976] and later also Black. [Letraset 1980] Mecanorma adopted Light, Regular, Black, and Outline in 1980 [Mecanorma 1980].
Digitizations available from ITC and Elsner+Flake. Neither has the many alternates included in the original phototype version.
