10 Facts About Palatino

1.

Palatino is the name of an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.

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2.

Palatino was particularly intended as a design for trade or 'jobbing' use, such as headings, advertisements and display printing, and was created with a solid, wide structure and wide apertures that could appear clearly on poor-quality paper, when read at a distance or printed at small sizes.

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3.

Palatino is one of several related typefaces by Zapf, which Stempel marketed as an "extended family".

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4.

Palatino rapidly became popular for book body text use, overshadowing the narrower and lighter Aldus, which Zapf had designed for this role.

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5.

Since Palatino was not originally designed for body text, some of its characters were intended to stand out with quirky, calligraphic design features, and Zapf later redesigned them with more sober alternates, which have become the norm on most digital versions.

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6.

Unlike Palatino, it is very unlike the style of roman type printing used during the Renaissance, which did not use bold type.

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7.

Palatino Linotype is the version of the Palatino family included with modern versions of Microsoft software.

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8.

Palatino Linotype was notable as being the first western OpenType font that Microsoft shipped; Palatino Linotype was bundled with Windows 2000.

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9.

Palatino nova is a redesigned version of Palatino, by Hermann Zapf and Akira Kobayashi.

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10.

Palatino Sans is a sans-serif design with stroke width modulation, resembling Zapf's classic design Optima but with a softer, more organic feel.

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