Designed by Oldřich Menhart in 1940–49. [Hlavsa] Released in 1949 (roman) and 1950 (italic) by Grafotechna. [Reichardt 2011]

Letraset’s revival (1992, used for sample) was drawn by Freda Sack [Sack] [Daines 2016] with art direction from Colin Brignall. Michael Gills provided the digitization. [Gills] “In its revived form, the face has been rationalized, smoothed out, and to my eye, made boring.” [Felici]

Briefcase Type Foundry released a revival, BC Figural, with optical size variants in 2022 as part of their Heritage of Oldřich Menhart project.