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History of Riccio / Grebe / Bijou / Bangle ?
Posted by idiotcountry in
17 Jan 2013 — 10:11am
17 Jan 2013 — 10:11am
Curious about the original metal type of (what I believe was commonly known as) Riccio ?
sample of a redraft (likely from the Solotype Victorian book where it was entitled Bijou):
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17 Jan 2013 — 10:43am
Well, well. The advanced search function here at Typophile is actually working. Did something recently transpire?
http://typophile.com/node/29508
"This started out as Herman Ihlenburg's (1882) typeface, Bijou. Fontbank digitized it as Bangle. Then Swfte, one of those companies who put out several "1500 Fonts for a Pittance" CDs full of ripoff clones, modified it to create the goofy font, Mexacali (yes, that spelling is correct)."
18 Jan 2013 — 5:14pm
I am currently working on a revival of a couple of Ihlenburg's other typefaces, Columbus (1892) and American Italic (1902).
More info on Ihlenburg:
http://library.rit.edu/cary/collections/hermann-ihlenburg-papers
The Cary Library's collection of Ihlenburg materials includes Ihlenburg's initial sketches for many of his typefaces.
http://typophile.com/node/12164
http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Ihlenb...
19 Jan 2013 — 3:08pm
A bit more .. Southern Software did "Riccio", no doubt a clone of Fontbank's Bangle, with SSI and SSK labeling. Somewhere along the line, someone internally renamed the SSI/Keypro Riccio to "Bijou", leaving "RiccioDisplayScriptSSI" as the PS Font Name.
Edit... and just found this from a few months ago:
http://www.typophile.com/node/95245
21 Jan 2013 — 5:43am
Cool. There is a nice revival of Bijou in the works I am told. Should be interesting.