Designed by Herb
Lubalin and Tony
Di Spigna. Initially released in 1972 in Regular and Bold
weights. 4 more weights (Light, Extra Bold, Heavy, Black) followed
in 1974. [U&lc]
The original version came with 11
alternates for ‘aefkrstzEL8’.
VGC offered additional alternates, incl. forms w/ both pointed
and blunt apexes in the bolder weights, and a circular ‘0’.
[VGC
1973] Berthold had similar alts w/ blunt apexes for the Bold
and Heavy. [Berthold
1982] 4 weights were adopted by
Letraset; first Regular, Bold, Heavy (w/ alts) [Letraset
1976] and later also Black. [Letraset
1980] Mecanorma adopted Light, Regular, Black, and Outline in
1980. [Mecanorma More…
Designed by Herb Lubalin and Tony Di Spigna. Initially released in 1972 in Regular and Bold weights. 4 more weights (Light, Extra Bold, Heavy, Black) followed in 1974. [U&lc] The original version came with 11 alternates for ‘aefkrstzEL8’.
VGC offered additional alternates, incl. forms w/ both pointed and blunt apexes in the bolder weights, and a circular ‘0’. [VGC 1973] Berthold had similar alts w/ blunt apexes for the Bold and Heavy. [Berthold 1982] 4 weights were adopted by Letraset; first Regular, Bold, Heavy (w/ alts) [Letraset 1976] and later also Black. [Letraset 1980] Mecanorma adopted Light, Regular, Black, and Outline in 1980. [Mecanorma 1980]
Digitizations available from ITC and Elsner+Flake. Neither has the many alternates included in the original phototype version.
