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of crasmanship that has inspired type designers since Gutenberg.
Comprising both new designs and revivals of classic typefaces, Adobe
Originals font soware has set a standard for typographic excelence.
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swash, non-Latin, and related glyph sets is eliminated. In aplications
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soware, glyphs are grouped according to their use. Activating these
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Brioso Pro
Brioso Pro is a new typeface family designed in the caligraphic tradi-
tion of our Latin alphabet, evoking the look of a nely-penned roman
and italic script, retaining the immediacy of hand leering while
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having the scope and functionality of a contemporary composition
family. Brioso lends the humanity of wrien forms with the clarity
Aa eled on his formal roman and italic script. In the modern caligra-
pher’s repertoire of leering styles, roman script is the hand that
A most closely mirors the oldstyle types that we commonly use today;
it is also among the most chalenging styles to master. Named aer
the Italian word for ‘lively’, Brioso moves rhythmicaly across the
page with an energy that is tempered by an ordered structure and
lucid form.
Designing Brioso by Robert Slimbac
“Soon aer I became interested in type design in the early s, I
began to study the humanist caligraphy of the Italian renaissance as a
means of beer understanding the roots of oldstyle text types. ese
praical handwriting styles, which evolved out of the Carolingian
writing disciplines of the th–th centuries, were commonly used
for the transcription of books. e rst designers of roman typefaces
Humanist minuscules used these Italian manuscript hands as the primary model for their
(th century), Jenson’s
Venetian roman of . new types. By also incorporating features from the inscriptional
capitals of ancient Rome, early type designers created typefaces of
exceptional beauty and praicality. As a testament to their durability,
oldstyle roman typefaces have changed lile over the last years,
being as relevant today as in the past.
Utopia “Because the principled strokes of the broad-edged quil and
Utopia Italic brush dene the very shape of our Latin alphabet, I am continualy
drawn to the caligraphic heritage as a source of inspiration in my
Minion own type design work. Al of my typeface designs, even the more
Minion Italic utilitarian ones like Utopia,® Minion,® Kepler,® and Cronos,® have subtle
caligraphic overtones, which ad warmth and depth to otherwise
Kepler less organic designs.
Kepler Italic “e concept of making a roman book face with an overtly hand-
wrien apearance has been a preoccupation of mine for as long as
Cronos I’ve been designing type. Over the years I’ve designed many praice
Cronos Italic alphabets with the intent of merging the essence of my personal
hand leering style with the praical requirements of the modern
composition family. ese ongoing exercises have been a great
learning experience, providing a means of reconciling the division
between the purely organic form of wrien leers and the more
methodicaly constructed form of a digital text type. With Brioso,
I wanted to aply what I’ve learned about the design of digital
composition families, caligraphy, and the history of leerforms to a
single, very personal design. e result is a typeface that retains the
basic form and detailing of my hand leering, but in a more rened
and idealized form. Alignments, spacing, and charaer shapes were
fashioned with the praical requirements of composition in mind.
“Much of the form of Brioso is derived from the eed in which I
pen Roman script, where passages of text are wrien in a careful but
expeditious manner. For the efficient progression of my text, I use
an economy of strokes to form leers; stems, serifs, and bowl shapes
are made using a series of individual pen strokes, minimizing built-
up shapes. By modulating pen pressure and angle, straight strokes
are oen bowed and the serifs are wedge-shaped. In the creation of
(below) Slimbach’s
manuscript pages today, as in the past, the scribe’s goal is to balance
formal roman script . vitality with precision to create araive and legile text.
own for corespondence and official documents among the artistic
and educated elite, it would later become the model for the rst italic
(below) Various samples types and eventualy lead to the pairing of roman and italic fonts in
of Slimbach’s humanistic
hanleering. the same typeface family, around the mid-sixteenth century.
Brioso Pro Weights
As an extended type family, Brioso Pro includes ve weights: Light,
Light Reula, Medium, Seibold, and Bold – for each of the four optical size
ranges: Caption, Text, Suhea, and Display – giving designers a highly
Reular functional palee of fonts to choose from. e various weights and
Medium optical sizes can be compared to the caligrapher’s use of different-
width pen nib widths to produce leers of varied weight and size. e
Semibold reular roman text font is the core typeface for seing composition, so
its weight and proportions have been tailored for the utilitarian and
Bold æsthetic requirements of legibility. e aditional weights and optical
masters serve to complement the reular text design according to
principles of hierarchy in typography. e medium serves as a slightly
heavier alternate to the standard text weight. e semibold and bold
text designs are used primarily to accentuate words and passages
within reular text. e semibold offers a subtle weight difference
from the reular design which can be quite elegant when aplied
in spacious seings. e bold is designed to make a more emphatic
statement; its weight, however, is not so heavy as to disrupt the color
of the page.
Light Caption
Light Italic Caption
Caption
Light
Italic Caption Light Italic Light Suhead
Medium Caption Reular
Medium Italic Caption
Italic
Light Italic Suhea Light Display
Semibold Caption
Suhead
Seibold Italic Caption
Bold Caption
Bold Italic Caption
Medium
Medium Italic Italic Suhea Light Italic Display
Semibold
Seibold Italic
Medium Suhead Display
Medium It. Suhea
Bold
Bold Italic Semibold Suhead Italic Display
Seibold It. Suhea Medium Display
Reular Bold Suhead
Bold Italic Suhea Medium Italic Display
Semibold Display
Seibold Italic Display
In Brioso Pro, the four optical ranges for each of the four weights
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provide greatly enhanced æsthetic apeal and readability for al point
sizes, from text sizes that are clear and easy to read, to display sizes
Caption
that are rened and elegant.
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Text
Brioso Pro’s four optical ranges are intended to cover the ful ec-
trum of usage in modern typography. e sturdy non-idiosyncratic
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Suhead
forms of the caption fonts are designed for maximum legibility
and work best for - to -point type.
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Display
e text fonts are the cornerstone of Brioso Pro and are intended
for - to -point type. eir weights and proportions have been care-
A comparison of the caption,
fuly balanced for reading comfort at the most commonly-used point
text, suhead, and display sizes for seing extended text.
reular optical masters scaled
to the same point size. e suhead fonts are best for seing phrases in - to -point
type and are wel suited for use as a complement to body text.
e suhead fonts represent a midle ground between text and
display type, maintaining the praical concerns of readability, while
displaying a greater degree of delicacy relative to body text.
e display masters are designed to showcase the elegance of the
leerforms and to complement the smaler size ranges as a lighter
and more rened version of the typeface. e display masters are
POSTER designed with subtle and oen stylized detailing, elegant proportions,
G nimate
Specialized
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and increased stroke contrast to help give larger sizes enhanced visual
apeal. e display fonts are intended for type sizes above -point.
In adition to the system of fonts that form the basic composition
family, Brioso also includes a Light Poster design in both roman and
italic styles. ese fonts are lighter and more stylized than the light
display designs and are designed for use at very large sizes.
Contextual Alternates
e contextual glyphs in Brioso work in conjunction with OpenType
font technology to beer emulate the natural apearance of sponta-
neous hand leering. In aplications that suport OpenType layout
features, the contextual and stylistic alternate glyphs and ligatures
are substituted automaticaly according to a set of embeded rules
dened by the type designer – improving leert and ading variety
of form to text. As leers are typed, the font program continualy up-
dates the text with the proper leer and ligature variations. Because
Brioso is, foremost, a composition family, the contextual alternates
are intended for subtle aesthetic effect and, therefore, their design
features are rather restrained.
ese alternates prevent awkwad coisions caused by the lowecase f and t, and
the upecase T.
Brioso Pro Glyphs
Brioso Pro’s large glyph complement was designed to further meet
the exaing requirements of professional typographers and designers
throughout the world. Its diverse glyph complement includes such
typographic niceties as swash capitals, smal capitals, oldstyle ures,
ornaments, alternate forms, international monetary symbols, and an
expanded set of mathematical symbols.
Swash capitals, which originated in the italic
handwriting of the Italian Renaissance, were adapted as typeforms
during the early sixteenth century. Since then, swash leers have
evolved along with new handwriting and typeface styles. Brioso
Pro contains a complete set of Latin swash capitals for al the italic
weights and optical sizes. Swash capitals can be used effectively for
expressive passages of text, or for titles and signage when an elegant
accent is caled for.
Al Brioso Pro fonts include nine of the most com-
monly used fraions; they are easier to use than constructed fraions,
which are made from numerator and denominator ures.
1⁄8 3⁄8 5⁄8 7⁄8 1⁄3 2⁄3 1⁄4 3⁄4 1⁄2
1⁄8 3⁄8 5⁄8 7⁄8 1⁄3 2⁄3 1⁄4 3⁄4 1⁄2
Superior leers are used in mathematics and
in English, French and Spanish for abreviating words, such as
second, ⁿ, Madame, M, compagnie, C, and seundo, .
ⁿ
ⁿ
ese glyphs have a beginning
ourish and are used at the beginning of a word or phrase as a design
embelishment. ey work best in text copy that is center-justied,
with the beginning charaers used at the beginning of the line and
the ending glyphs at the end.
ese glyphs usualy have an end-
ing ourish and are used at the end of a word or phrase as a design
embelishment. Because of their decorative quality, they are best used
in moderation.
ese glyphs serve either to corect
awkward leer combinations or as aesthetic enhancements within
text. ey are implemented automaticaly according to a set of pre-
determined contextual rules.
æ œ st Æ Œ
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ese include the
symbols for cent ¢, dolar $, euro €, colon ₡, orin ƒ, franc ₣, lira ₤,
peseta ₧, sterling £, yen ¥, curency ¤, and rupiah . Also included
are oldstyle versions of most of the monetary symbols, which are
designed to be compatile with the oldstyle ures.
¢ $ € ₡ ƒ £ ₤ ¥ ₣ ₧ No # ¤
No ¤
ese alternate forms were designed to give
words and phrases a slightly more animated and informal apearance.
ey can be implemented individualy using programs like InDesign.
e large number of accented glyphs
in Brioso Pro suport a broad range of Latin-based lanuages around
the world. e accents are availale in upercase, lowercase, and smal
capital versions.
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Roman Glyphs in Brioso Pro
Basic Latin Glyphs ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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Italic Glyphs in Brioso Pro
Basic Latin Glyphs ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz
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Aditional Glyphs ÆŒÐØŁÞæœðøłþstß
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(1⁄41⁄23⁄41⁄83⁄85⁄87⁄81⁄32⁄3 ⁄ ) ⁿ
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Swash Italic Glyphs
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Accented Glyphs áăâäàāąåãćçčďđéěêëėè
ēęíîïìīįĺľļłļńňņñóôöòőōõø
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Brioso Pro Basic Typefaces
Light ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Light Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Reula ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Reula Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Medium ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Medium Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Seibold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Seibold Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Bold ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Bold Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Poste ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&
Poste Italic ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz&
Text Seings
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evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent symbols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pic-
alphabet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For tograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest
centuries, wrien lanuage has been the primary means of document-
for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage
ing human endeavor, affording us a window to the past. e alphabet
we know today was estalished during the Italian Renaissance. e has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
elegant and praical scripts of this time evolved from earlier writing affording us a window to the past. e alphabet we know today
systems and derived their charaer from the broad-edged quil. ese was estalished during the Italian Renaissance. e elegant
scripts, in al their forms, had a sweeping inuence on society and led and praical scripts of this time evolved from earlier writ-
to the creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e use toay. In ing systes and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui.
the early th century, with the avent of coperplate engraing as a means ese scipts, in a thei fors, ha a sweeing inuence on society
of reroucing leerfors and iustrations, italic handwiting evolved to and led to the creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e
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evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent symbols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pic-
alphabet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For tograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest
centuries, wrien lanuage has been the primary means of documenting
for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage
human endeavor, affording us a window to the past. e alphabet we
know today was estalished during the Italian Renaissance. e elegant has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
and praical scripts of this time evolved from earlier writing systems affording us a window to the past. e alphabet we know today
and derived their charaer from the broad-edged quil. ese scripts, was estalished during the Italian Renaissance. e elegant
in al their forms, had a sweeping inuence on society and led to the and praical scripts of this time evolved from earlier writing
creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e use toay. In the early systes and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui.
th century, with the avent of coperplate engraing as a means of rero- ese scipts, in a thei fors, ha a sweeing inuence on society
ducing leerfors and iustrations, italic handwiting evolved to eulate and led to the creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e
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bols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to symbols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest
our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a
efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has been the primary means
quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien
of documenting human endeavor, affording us a window to the past.
e alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian Renais- lanuage has been the primary means of documenting human
sance. e elegant and praical scripts of this time evolved from earlier endeavor, affording us a window to the past. e alphabet we
writing systems and derived their charaer from the broad-edged quil. know today was estalished during the Italian Renaissance.
ese scripts, in al their forms, had a sweeping inuence on society and e elegant and praical scripts of this time evolved from
led to the creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e use toay. In earlie witing systes and deied thei carae from the
the early th century, with the avent of coperplate engraing as a means of broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors, ha a sweeing
reroucing leerfors and iustrations, italic handwiting evolved to eu- inuence on society and led to the creation of the roman and italic
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e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our cur- symbols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest
rent alphabet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a
For centuries, wrien lanuage has been the primary means of docu-
quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien
menting human endeavor, affording us a window to the past. e alpha-
bet we know today was estalished during the Italian Renaissance. e lanuage has been the primary means of documenting
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systems and derived their charaer from the broad-edged quil. ese alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian
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to the creation of the roman and italic leerfors that e use toay. In evolved from earlie witing systes and deied thei carae
the early th century, with the avent of coperplate engraing as a means from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors, ha
of reroucing leerfors and iustrations, italic handwiting evolved to a sweeing inuence on society and led to the creation of the
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bols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to symbols. e evolution of handwriting, from the earliest
our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a
efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has been the primary
quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien
means of documenting human endeavor, affording us a window to
the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished during the lanuage has been the primary means of documenting
Italian Renaissance. e elegant and praical scripts of this time human endeavor, affording us a window to the past. e
evolved from earlier writing systems and derived their charaer alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian
from the broad-edged quil. ese scripts, in al their forms, had Renaissance. e elegant and praical scripts of this time
a sweeing inuence on society and led to the creation of the roman evolved from earlie witing systes and deied thei carac-
and italic leerfors that e use toay. In the early th century, with te from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors,
the avent of coperplate engraing as a means of reroucing let- ha a sweeing inuence on society and led to the creation of
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for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien
has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
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for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien
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praical scipts of this time evolved from earlie witing systes alphabet e know toay as estalished duing the Italian
and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui. ese Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time
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tograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been
for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For cen-
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grams to our curent alphabet, has been driven by a quest earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been
for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For cen-
has been the primary means of documenting human en-
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lie witing systes and deied thei carae from the broa- ing the Italian Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts
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a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, writ- driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For cen-
ten lanuage has been the primary means of documenting
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of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been
driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has
been the primary means of documenting human endeavor, affording us a win-
dow to the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian
Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved from earlie witing
systes and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei
fors, ha a sweeing inuence on society and led to the creation of the roman and italic
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For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evolution of
handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been driven
by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has been
the primary means of documenting human endeavor, affording us a window to
the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian Renais-
sance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved from earlie witing systes
and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors,
For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evolution
of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been
driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has
been the primary means of documenting human endeavor, affording us a window
to the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian Renais-
sance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved from earlie witing systes
and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors,
For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evolution
of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has been
driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lanuage has
been the primary means of documenting human endeavor, affording us a window
to the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished during the Italian Renais-
sance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved from earlie witing systes
and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui. ese scipts, in a thei fors,
For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evo-
lution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet,
has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, writ-
ten lanuage has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
affording us a window to the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished
duing the Italian Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved
from earlie witing systes and deied thei carae from the broa-edged qui.
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For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evolu-
tion of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet, has
been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, wrien lan-
uage has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor, afford-
ing us a window to the past. e alphabet we know today was estalished
during the Italian Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time
evolved from earlie witing systes and deied thei carae from the broa-
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For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evo-
lution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet,
has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, writ-
ten lanuage has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
affoding us a window to the past. e alphabet e know toay as estalished
duing the Italian Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time evolved
For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evo-
lution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alphabet,
has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries, writ-
ten lanuage has been the primary means of documenting human endeavor,
affoding us a window to the past. e alphabet e know toay as estalished
duing the Italian Renaisance. e elegant and praical scipts of this time
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For , years, man has communicated through wrien symbols. e evo-
lution of handwriting, from the earliest pictograms to our curent alpha-
bet, has been driven by a quest for simplicity and efficiency. For centuries,
wrien lanuage has been the primary means of documenting human
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Charmed Combination
Oldstyle roman typefaces of the Italian Renaissance
Formal and Freestyle Scripts
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Carla Sandoval
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Further Reading
Atkins, Kathryn A. Masters of the Italic Lee. Boston: David R. Godine, .
Blumenthal, Joseph. Art of the Pinted Book -. Boston: David R. Godine, Pub-
lisher in association with e Pierpont Morgan Library, .
Fairbank, Alfred and Wolpe, Bertold. Renaisance Handwiting, An Anthology of Italic
Scipts. London: Faber and Faber Limited, .
Morison, Stanley and Day, Kenneth. e Typographic Book -. London: e
University of Chicago Press, .
Mediavila, Claude. Caigraphy, From Caigraphy to Abstract Painting. Wommelgem,
Belgium. Scirpus Pulications, .
Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Pinting Types, ei History, Fors, and Use. New York:
Dover Pulications, Inc. .
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Text wrien by Fred Brady and Robert Slimbach.
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with the nal production of the Brioso Pro typeface family. anks also to Kely Davis,
Kat Gatzke, Harold Grey, Donna Kolnes, David Lemon, Ernie March, Jim Mildrew,
and omas Phinney for their helpful comments.
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