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Italian italic, 1911
Posted by Bendy in
24 Aug 2012 — 4:01am
24 Aug 2012 — 4:01am
Unfortunately it's a photo of a photocopy, but hope someone can help identify this splendid Modern italic from Rome, 1911. Found in the Catalogo dei punzoni e delle matrici orientali e latini from the Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana.
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24 Aug 2012 — 8:57am
You should use the Edit link to move the thread out the "Solved IDs" section up to the main Type ID Board.
24 Aug 2012 — 9:02am
Ha, whoops! Thanks Riccardo :)
25 Aug 2012 — 3:09am
A bit larger:
17 Jan 2013 — 11:12am
Hopeful bump :-)
18 Jan 2013 — 6:56am
It is very reminiscent of Madison Antiqua, which, according to Jaspert, Berry and Johnson's Encyclopedia, was originally called Amts-Antiqua, and issued in 1909 by Stempel. It also says the typeface was redesigned in 1965, maybe that's when the descender of the lc f was cut off at the baseline etc.
18 Jan 2013 — 7:18am
Beautiful, thanks very much!