Aldus®

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About this font family

Hermann Zapf designed Aldus for the Stempel foundry in 1954 as a companion to his Palatino typefaces. Originally designed as a display typeface, Palatino gained popularity as a text typeface as well. Believing Palatino to be too bold for settings at small point sizes, Zapf designed the lighter weight Aldus to better suit text settings.

The typeface is named for Aldus Manutius, the innovative fifteenth-century Italian printer/publisher.

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Designers: Hermann Zapf
Design date: 1954
Publisher: Adobe
Design owner: Linotype
Original foundry: Stempel
MyFonts debut: Dec 3, 2007

Available licensing options

Glyph coverage

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only available in some of the styles:

Aldus LTStd-Roman

$29

Aldus LTStd-Italic

$29

Available formats

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‘Aldus’ is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.