The italic style of the Bembo goes back to a sample book by the Italian callist Giovanni Tagliente from 1524.īased on these templates, the Bembo used today was redrawn for Monotype in 1929 by the type artist Stanley Morison (according to other sources by Alfred Fairbank ) and named after Bembo. The De Aetna-Type formed the basis for the much better known Garamond, but has more angular serifs than this. This work was published in February 1496 (according to the Venetian calendar of 1495) in Aldo Manuzio's print shop. The De Aetna-Type was cut for printing the treatise De Aetna by the young humanist and later Cardinal Pietro Bembo. The Bembo is a 1929 for the company Monotype redrawn font that of De Aetna Type the Venetian Francesco Griffo is based on the 1496th
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