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slender (especially in the serifs) than Jenson's original. It also modernises Jenson's two-way serifs on the top of the 'M' in favour of one-way serifs. In addition, the italic capitals slope in the modern tradition, which was established after Arrighi's time in the later 16th century. Monotype advisor and historian of printing
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Centaur is an elegant and quite slender design, lighter on the page than Jenson's work and most other revivals, an effect possibly amplified in the digital release compared to the metal type. It has been popular in fine book printing and is often used both for printing body text and especially titles
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Centaur has been digitised, both by Monotype in collaboration with Adobe, and by LTC, who assumed the rights to many Lanston (American) Monotype typefaces, under the name of Metropolitan. The revivals have slightly different features; Monotype’s having a bold and bold italic and swash caps and LTC’s
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of the i and j are very visibly shifted to the right, a feature of Jenson's original design. The horizontal stroke of the 'e' is slanted, not exactly horizontal as came to be the norm in print. On the other hand, while based on study of Jenson's work, Centaur is a deliberately loose imitation, more
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Modern font designer Juliet Shen comments on Jenson's books that "A type designer looking at the Eusebius font is struck at once by how difficult it is to envision what the actual type looked like from its inked impression. Details are obscured: the stroke terminals and serifs are rounded from ink
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type of great distinction', emphasising its feeling of not having been restricted to allow tighter linespacing, as other types often had been in the hot metal period. Monotype has sold the design with bold and bold italic designs (their invention, since bold type did not exist until long after
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Arrighi's book had a complex publication history apparently involving a dispute between Arrighi and his publisher, making its dating and printing location(s) both somewhat involved. It is believed to have been published in Rome and Venice between 1522 and
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as "a freehand emphasis of the calligraphic basis of the original" and its modernisation "a concession to contemporary sense". Sebastian Carter calls it "an imaginative recreation".
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spread. So the first task of interpretation must be to decide what the skeletal form of each letter may have been before imper- fect printing added a layer of disguise."
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Italic typefaces did not exist in Jenson's time, and so the inspiration for Centaur's italic comes from thirty years later, in the calligraphy and printing of
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began revivals of the Jenson style in 1892 with a more solid structure (no matching italic was created for it); other Jenson interpretations included the
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for the city Jenson worked in during his career as a printer. In the late nineteenth century, Jenson's work had become a popular model for
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Centaur's italic is one of several based on the work of Arrighi created by Monotype in the 1920s, including the italic
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around 1915, during the same period as Centaur. Ludlow created another release with italic under the direction of
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The completed family was released for general use in 1929, with a first showing in Monotype's specimen booklet
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having a more complex, less smooth digitisation with many italic alternates and complementary ornaments.
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also issued a very eccentric Jenson revival inspired by the work of Morris which is little-known today.
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Other Monotype fonts of the hot metal period inspired by Renaissance printing included the very popular
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commissioned Rogers to release it for the general market. Rogers did not feel able to create a matching
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copying Jenson's work, and several other revivals and imitations of Morris' work had followed by 1914.
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The palaeotypography of the French Renaissance. Selected papers on sixteenth-century typefaces. 2 vols
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Centaur & Arrighi identified separately on a metal type specimen book, at large print size
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Copyright in the Renaissance: prints and the privilegio in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome
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designs, based on the predominant influence of Jenson's work. The style is also called
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Centaur shows some of the irregularities of early type compared to later designs. The
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Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History.
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is a notable and extremely complete digital revival from 1996 with features such as
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Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History.
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La operina di Ludouico Vicentino, da imparare di scriuere littera cancellarescha
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that is bundled with some Microsoft software, adding his own italic design.
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Rogers' revival was originally drawn as titling capitals in 1914 for the
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Selected essays on the history of letter-forms in manuscript and print
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and headings. One of its most notable uses has been in the designs of
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if he could pair Centaur with a design Warde had created based upon
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and based on the slightly later work of calligrapher and printer
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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Claude Garamond
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The Monotype Corporation limited, specimen blade 5-64, Bembo 270
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Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces.
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Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance: Sources and Encounters
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Writing matter: from the hands of the English Renaissance
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At least two open-source digital typefaces, Museum (by
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Outside its common uses, Centaur is also used for the
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Cover of the book The Centaur printed by Bruce Rogers
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Dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press. pp. 12–22 850:Morison, Stanley; Johnson, Alfred (2009). 730:Arrighi, Ludovico Vicentino degli (1524). 182:, who have regularly used it for titling. 36: 194:Jenson's roman type, from a 1475 edition. 421:) and Coelacanth, are based on Centaur. 1508: 758:The Golden Thread: the story of writing 530: 328:. Warde's design had the separate name 142:typeface by book and typeface designer 2537:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1929 1547:, another calligrapher-turned-printer. 476:was created by its design team led by 29: 1635:Dover Publications, Inc: 1937, 1980. 816:Witcombe, Christopher L.C.E. (2004). 7: 1616:Meggs, Philip B. and McKelvey, Roy. 1276:Levien, Ralph (September 21, 2015). 920:Stössinger, Nina (9 November 2012). 854:. In McKitterick, David John (ed.). 672:"Searching for Morris Fuller Benton" 541:Heller, Steven (13 September 2016). 234:and then other fine printers of the 2178:Palace and Dorchester Script (1938) 1815:(1911) and Italian Old Style (1919) 1457:"Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi" 822:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 285–286. 380:. Monotype described it as a 'long- 374:The Trained Printer and the Amateur 304:and the type was privately cast by 761:. Counterpoint. pp. 128–151. 385:Jenson's and Arrighi's work), and 365:Centaur & Arrighi at text size 25: 1601:Meggs, Philip B. and Rob Carter. 1573:Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. 1302:Whitmore, Ben (August 29, 2014). 1081:"The Fifty Best Books exhibition" 702:. Leiden: Brill. pp. 65–77. 2504: 998:. Chestnut Press. 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Arrighi (typeface)

Category
Serif
Classification
Old-style
Venetian
Designer(s)
Bruce Rogers
Frederic Warde
Nicolas Jenson
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
Foundry
Monotype Corporation
serif
Bruce Rogers
Renaissance
Nicolas Jenson
Oxford Lectern Bible
Monotype
italic
Frederic Warde
Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi
Penguin Books

Nicholas Jenson
Francesco Griffo
Pietro Bembo
humanist
old-style

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