Design started by Dick Dooijes in 1957. Introduced in January
1958 [Lane
& Lommen 1998]. The first weights, regular and bold, were made
available in 1958. [Reichardt
2011]. Extended to eight styles until c. 1964 [specimen].
To a limited degree, Mercator was available on the
Intertype [Lane & Lommen 1998].
Digitized by Laurenz Brunner during his time at Rietveld
Academie in 2005 [Brunner]
(in use for their signage
and stationery and elsewhere);
by Ken Meier (Bold only) [Shoukas],
by Daniella
Spinat in 2007; and by Charles Mazé during his t]m year at KABK
in 2009 [ARNT]
(in use as Mercator Ammazzate in the book
Come vanno le cose?). Design studio Dogma (Bauke
van der Laan and Theo van Beurden) digitized the and Bold
Regular. More…
Design started by Dick Dooijes in 1957. Introduced in January 1958 [Lane & Lommen 1998]. The first weights, regular and bold, were made available in 1958. [Reichardt 2011]. Extended to eight styles until c. 1964 [specimen]. To a limited degree, Mercator was available on the Intertype [Lane & Lommen 1998].
Digitized by Laurenz Brunner during his time at Rietveld Academie in 2005 [Brunner] (in use for their signage and stationery and elsewhere); by Ken Meier (Bold only) [Shoukas], by Daniella Spinat in 2007; and by Charles Mazé during his t]m year at KABK in 2009 [ARNT] (in use as Mercator Ammazzate in the book Come vanno le cose?). Design studio Dogma (Bauke van der Laan and Theo van Beurden) digitized the and Bold Regular. The latter was used in the 2020 issue of Dd Magazine. None of these versions is distributed commercially.
For a less direct follower, see Atlas Grotesk.
