“The capital letters were drawn with a brush, the lower case
with a broad-tipped pen (Brause 505) developed by Hoefer especially
for the task.” —
Linotype
Various ligatures incl. ‘ch’ ‘ck’ ‘ft’ ‘tz’ and alternates for
‘DMNPWrz7’.
In 1954, a variation with simpler capitals was added as
Saltino. Saltarello (1954,
unrealized) combines Salto’s capitals with condensed upright
lowercase letters featuring long ascenders.
Adopted by Letraset for dry transfer lettering in 1986, with
alternates for ‘DMNPW’, (only) the alternate forms for ‘rz7’, and a
different ampersand. [Letraset
sheet]
Digital interpretations by Image
Club (1992, discontinued) and by Linotype. Both have the alternate forms only.
Linotype’s also has revised forms for ‘T’ and ‘Y’. It initially
matched the original proportions [2003 More…
“The capital letters were drawn with a brush, the lower case with a broad-tipped pen (Brause 505) developed by Hoefer especially for the task.” — Linotype
Various ligatures incl. ‘ch’ ‘ck’ ‘ft’ ‘tz’ and alternates for ‘DMNPWrz7’.
In 1954, a variation with simpler capitals was added as Saltino. Saltarello (1954, unrealized) combines Salto’s capitals with condensed upright lowercase letters featuring long ascenders.
Adopted by Letraset for dry transfer lettering in 1986, with alternates for ‘DMNPW’, (only) the alternate forms for ‘rz7’, and a different ampersand. [Letraset sheet]
Digital interpretations by Image Club (1992, discontinued) and by Linotype. Both have the alternate forms only. Linotype’s also has revised forms for ‘T’ and ‘Y’. It initially matched the original proportions [2003 archive], but later was made narrower [2007 archive].
