Together with Westminster, Gemini was the first typeface
design to apply the idiosyncratic forms of machine-readable
magnetic ink numerals (see MICR) to letters. Designed by Franco
Grignani in 1964 with the title
Magnetic and used
in his work in 1965. This custom alphabet was subesquently
adopted for photocomposition in 1966 in America. [Grignani]
Available from phototype firms under various names, (first?) as
Gemini by Filmotype [Typeshop 1973] [Filmomaster c.1974], as Gemini
Computer [Conways 1974], Automation [Solo 1978] [Formatt 1974], and as Sonic (by
whom?). See also Westminster, Computer
and Data
70.
Digital interpretations include Automation
(Type
Revivals, 1990s, w/ open and shaded glyphs in the uppercase),
BD
Geminis (Büro Destruct, 2009), Auto
Mission (Toto, More…
Together with Westminster, Gemini was the first typeface design to apply the idiosyncratic forms of machine-readable magnetic ink numerals (see MICR) to letters. Designed by Franco Grignani in 1964 with the title Magnetic and used in his work in 1965. This custom alphabet was subesquently adopted for photocomposition in 1966 in America. [Grignani]
Available from phototype firms under various names, (first?) as Gemini by Filmotype [Typeshop 1973] [Filmomaster c.1974], as Gemini Computer [Conways 1974], Automation [Solo 1978] [Formatt 1974], and as Sonic (by whom?). See also Westminster, Computer and Data 70.
Digital interpretations include Automation (Type Revivals, 1990s, w/ open and shaded glyphs in the uppercase), BD Geminis (Büro Destruct, 2009), Auto Mission (Toto, 2011; based on the Solotype showing, and Atwin (Cubic Type, 2021).
