“… designed by William Dana Orcutt and privately cast by ATF in
1904 for the University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a
careful rendering into type of the round humanistic writing of the
Renaissance period, based in particular on the 1485 manuscript of
Antonio Sinibaldi’s Virgil in the Laurentian Library at Florence,
Italy.” — McGrew
Sinibaldi (also known as Umanistico)
was a collaboration between Orcutt and Raffaello Bertieri, dating
back to 1904–1905. Orcutt was researching and drawing humanistic
letters found in Italian libraries. Drawn by Orcutt and possibly
cut by Bertieri. Petrarch is the first book printed by
Orcutt with the Sinibaldi types. Much later released by Nebiolo as
Sinibaldi (1928). [Piccinini]
Humanistic More…
“… designed by William Dana Orcutt and privately cast by ATF in 1904 for the University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a careful rendering into type of the round humanistic writing of the Renaissance period, based in particular on the 1485 manuscript of Antonio Sinibaldi’s Virgil in the Laurentian Library at Florence, Italy.” — McGrew
Sinibaldi (also known as Umanistico) was a collaboration between Orcutt and Raffaello Bertieri, dating back to 1904–1905. Orcutt was researching and drawing humanistic letters found in Italian libraries. Drawn by Orcutt and possibly cut by Bertieri. Petrarch is the first book printed by Orcutt with the Sinibaldi types. Much later released by Nebiolo as Sinibaldi (1928). [Piccinini]
Humanistic was adapted in 1940 by Sol Hess at Lanston Monotype and named Laurentian, not to be confused with Rod McDonald’s Laurentian (Monotype, 2003). “A few years later the design was modified by Stephenson Blake in England, and issued as Bologna; this in turn was adapted by ATF as Verona.” — McGrew
See also Graily Hewitt’s Treyford (Oxford University Press, 1928). [Jaspert]
