Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig in 1951 and issued by Monotype as
Dante 592 in Regular and Italic.
Dante 612 Titling followed in 1959. A Semi-Bold weight with
italics was added in 1968. [Reichardt] Originally hand-cut by
Charles Malin in 1954 in the 12pt size. [Stamperia
Valdonega] First used for Boccaccio’s
Trattatello in Laude di Dante (1954). Adopted for mechanical
composition in 1959 [German
Monotype specimen] or 1957. [Adobe]
Digitized by Monotype in 1991 [Stamperia
Valdonega] and again (?) by Ron Carpenter for in 3 weights with
italics (Monotype, 2001; used for the sample, also sold by Adobe).
The Regular and Bold, each with italics, have also been released in
a special screen version as
Dante eText (2013).
Dante VAL is Stamperia Valdonega’s proprietary digitization,
which is based on the foundry metal original, not
Monotype's More…
Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig in 1951 and issued by Monotype as Dante 592 in Regular and Italic. Dante 612 Titling followed in 1959. A Semi-Bold weight with italics was added in 1968. [Reichardt] Originally hand-cut by Charles Malin in 1954 in the 12pt size. [Stamperia Valdonega] First used for Boccaccio’s Trattatello in Laude di Dante (1954). Adopted for mechanical composition in 1959 [German Monotype specimen] or 1957. [Adobe]
Digitized by Monotype in 1991 [Stamperia Valdonega] and again (?) by Ron Carpenter for in 3 weights with italics (Monotype, 2001; used for the sample, also sold by Adobe). The Regular and Bold, each with italics, have also been released in a special screen version as Dante eText (2013).
Dante VAL is Stamperia Valdonega’s proprietary digitization, which is based on the foundry metal original, not Monotype's hot metal version, and comes in a range of optical sizes. [John Hudson on Typophile]
