Typeface	Palatino
Category	Serif
Designer(s)	Hermann Zapf
Foundry	Linotype
Variations	Palatino Nova Palatino Sans

A comparison of Linotype Palatino, Monotype Book Antiqua, and Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber (URW) Palladio L.

Palatino is an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf at the German branch of Linotype. It was released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry. It remains one of the most widely-used, and copied, text typefaces. It has been adapted to virtually every type of technology. Palatino is one of the ten most used serif typefaces. Palatino is one of several related typefaces by Hermann Zapf, each showing influence of the Italian Renaissance letter forms. The group includes, Palatine, Sistina, Michaelangelo titling, and Aldus, which takes inspiration from printing types cut by Francesco Griffo c. 1495 in the print shop of Aldus Manutius. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... “Font” redirects here. ... “Font” redirects here. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. ... Hermann Zapf (born in Nuremberg, Germany on November 8, 1918) is a prolific German typeface designer. ... A type foundry is a company that designs and/or distributes typefaces. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linotype machine. ... Image File history File links CompPal1. ... Image File history File links CompPal1. ... In typography, serifs are non-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. ... “Font” redirects here. ... Hermann Zapf (born in Nuremberg, Germany on November 8, 1918) is a prolific German typeface designer. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Linotype typesetting machine 1896 Mergenthaler Linotype stock certificate. ...

Named after 16th century Italian master of calligraphy Giambattista Palatino, Palatino is based on the humanist fonts of the Italian Renaissance, which mirror the letters formed by a broadnib pen; this gives a calligraphic grace. But where the Renaissance faces tend to use smaller letters with longer vertical lines (ascenders and descenders) with lighter strokes, Palatino has larger proportions, and is considered much easier to read. See the "typeface" article for more on classification. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Contemporary Western Calligraphy. ... See also the specific life stance known as Humanism For the Renaissance liberal arts movement, see Renaissance humanism Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appeal to universal human qualities... This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. ... Contemporary Western Calligraphy. ... The ascenders are the parts of the characters that lie above the midline, highlighted in red. ... The descenders are the parts of the characters that lie below the baseline. ... “Font” redirects here. ...

The digital type foundries Linotype and Adobe Systems sell authentic versions of Palatino; Palatino Linotype is authorized by Zapf as the definitive Palatino. However, certain hot metal versions of Palatino, of smaller x-height, are considered both more legible and elegant to many people. In the Bitstream font collection, Palatino is called Zapf Calligraphic. A type foundry is a company that designs and/or distributes typefaces. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linotype machine. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... Type metal is an alloy (usually lead, antimony, and tin) that is used in typesetting. ... Bitstream Inc. ...

Zapf also designed Aldus, which appeared in the D. Stempel AG catalog in 1954. Both Aldus and Palatino were Zapf’s new form of old style typefaces inspired by the Renaissance. Aldus is a serif typeface created by Hermann Zapf in 1954. ...

Recently (2006?) Linotype has announced the forthcoming addition of Palatino Sans and Palatino Sans Informal to the Palatino family. The specimens made available with the preannouncement resemble Optima in but have a softer, more organic feel. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linotype machine. ... Optima is the name of a typeface designed by Hermann Zapf between 1952-1955. ...

Variants and similar typefaces

Microsoft distributes a similar typeface, Book Antiqua (originally by Monotype), which is considered by many to be an imitation. Like Arial, which is a Helvetica look-alike, Book Antiqua was designed as an alternative to licensing the fonts mandated by Adobe's PostScript standard. Both Book Antiqua and Arial share the original typefaces' character width, spacing and kerning properties. However, Book Antiqua resembles Palatino much more than Arial does Helvetica; indeed, the two are quite difficult to tell apart. One difference is in the width of the C and the S; the Book Antiqua versions do not look quite "correct" to some readers. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Palatino is a serif typeface created by Hermann Zapf in 1948. ... Monotype Imaging, Inc is a typesetting and typeface design company (type foundry) responsible for many developments in printing technology — in particular the Monotype machine which was the first fully mechanical typesetter — and the design and production of typefaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a typeface and a computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, and many PostScript computer printers. ... This article is about the typeface Helvetica. ... Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... For the literary term, see Postscript. ... Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a typeface and a computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, and many PostScript computer printers. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

In 1993, Zapf resigned from l'Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members. Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... ATypI is the Association Typographique Internationale, or the international typography association. ...

Although Book Antiqua is not a direct copy, Microsoft has since licensed and distributes a version of Zapf's original design called Palatino Linotype in Windows 2000 and XP. Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptive, interruptible, graphical and business-oriented operating system that was designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor 32-bit Intel x86 computers. ... Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ...

URW Palladio L, another similar typeface is available, this time by URW (Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber — from the founders' names^[1] now retitled URW++) and under the GNU General Public License. Zapf actually did work with URW on this typeface, but Linotype retains the license to the name Palatino. URW is a font manufacturer, author of many fonts freely available on free software operating systems. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

References

1. ^ MyFonts.com - URW

• Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. ISBN 0-300-10073-6.
• Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
• Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
• Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface. Godine: 1990. ISBN 978-0879233334.
• Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
• Zapf, Hermann. Manuale Typographicum. The MIT Press: 19534, 1970. ISBN 0-262-24011-4.

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External links

• Typowiki: Palatino
• John Butler has compiled this Palatino FAQ.
• Luc Devroye
  • More on the Palatino Story
  • The quality of Linotype palatino
• Hermann Zapf wrote a life history for Linotype Library, available Here
• Palatino Linotype font information (Microsoft typography)