Date: 1999
Designer:
Gerald Giampa
Foundry:
P22 / Lanston Type Co
Location:
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Current equivalent:
LTC Bodoni 26
See also:
Alphabet 26 by Bradbury Thompson, Emigré Filosofia Unicase by Zuzana Licko (shown above)
Technologies:
Postscript
Truetype
Famous for:
Popular revival of unicase concept applied to Didone style.
Applications: Advertising and Display
Ubiquity:
Average use
Category:
Unicase Modern/Didone
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Hairline
Gerald Giampa’s Bodoni 26 is available in only one weight and style – ‘almost unicase’ in his words, meaning that the font works like a set of titling capitals but with some resized lowercase characters doing double duty. It is a surprisingly graceful realisation of both a reworking of Bodoni’s display sizes, and the unicase ideas proposed earlier in the 20th century, notably in the work of Bradbury Thompson. Giampa had bought out the ailing Lanston Type Company and under his direction the company focused on accurately digitizing historic typefaces, including many original designs by Frederic Goudy and Sol Hess. In 2004 Lanston Type Company (LTC) became an independent division within the P22 Digital Foundry.
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