Designed by Hermann Zapf in 1948 and cut in metal by August
Rosenberger at D. Stempel AG. Released in 1950 and adapted for the
Linotype machine. Two italics: the foundry version is narrower than
Linotype’s and includes
swash alternates, which in 1953 were extended to a full set of
swash caps. Still in the 1950s, several of the roman’s more
calligraphic glyphs
were revised for Anglo-American markets.
Palatino is accompanied by the lighter
and narrower Aldus for
books and the Greek Heraklit. Michelangelo
(Greek: Phidias) and the heavier Sistina
are display complements. Kompakt,
Virtuosa
(Greek: Frederika), Saphir
and even Gilgengart
were
all advertised as distant relatives of the greater
Palatino family.
Compugraphic’s clone was named Paladium.
[Compugraphic
1976] Many digital versions, including authorized (URW
Palladio, Zapf Calligraphic 801) and
unauthorized versions (Book More…
Designed by Hermann Zapf in 1948 and cut in metal by August Rosenberger at D. Stempel AG. Released in 1950 and adapted for the Linotype machine. Two italics: the foundry version is narrower than Linotype’s and includes swash alternates, which in 1953 were extended to a full set of swash caps. Still in the 1950s, several of the roman’s more calligraphic glyphs were revised for Anglo-American markets.
Palatino is accompanied by the lighter and narrower Aldus for books and the Greek Heraklit. Michelangelo (Greek: Phidias) and the heavier Sistina are display complements. Kompakt, Virtuosa (Greek: Frederika), Saphir and even Gilgengart were all advertised as distant relatives of the greater Palatino family.
Compugraphic’s clone was named Paladium. [Compugraphic 1976] Many digital versions, including authorized (URW Palladio, Zapf Calligraphic 801) and unauthorized versions (Book Antiqua). Berthold’s (based on their phototype adaptation) preserved the forms of the original cut, but is no longer available. A revised version with Cyrillic and Greek is included both in Windows (Palatino Linotype) and Mac OS (Palatino). Completely reworked in 2005 as Palatino nova.
