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Bembo®

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Bembo® is an Adobe font family with 8 styles priced from $29.00.

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Bembo®
387898; ; English
387898; ; Western Europe


Bembo StdPurchase Options
  Bembo Std Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesSmall CapsOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bembo Std ItalicPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bembo Std SemiboldPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Semibold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bembo Std Semibold ItalicPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Semibold Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$29.00

Bembo Std BoldPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Bold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bembo Std Bold ItalicPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Bold Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$29.00

Bembo Std Extra BoldPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Extra Bold Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOpenType AlternatesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
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$29.00

Bembo Std Extra Bold ItalicPurchase Options
  Bembo Std-Extra Bold Italic Any OpenType FeaturesBasic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesOther OpenTypeDingbats & Symbols
  Preview Imageadd to album
$29.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 3rd, 2007
Designed by: Aldus Manutius
Letterform design based on: Bembo
Contained in Categories: Garalde, Legible
Design owned by: Monotype Imaging
Originally created by: Monotype
MyFonts Keywords: aldine, book, booktext, childwriting, conservative, elegant, formal, garalde, humanist, legible, serif, wedding [suggest]


Bembo

Bembo was modeled on typefaces cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius’ printing of De Aetna in 1495 in Venice, a book by classicist Pietro Bembo about his visit to Mount Etna. Griffo’s design is considered one of the first of the old style typefaces, which include Garamond, that were used as staple text types in Europe for two hundred years.

Stanley Morison supervised the design of Bembo for the Monotype Corporation in 1929. Bembo is a fine text face because of its well-proportioned letterforms, functional serifs, and lack of peculiarities; the italic is modeled on the handwriting of the Renaissance scribe Giovanni Tagliente.

Books and other texts set in Bembo can encompass a large variety of subjects and formats because of its quiet classical beauty and its high readability.


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'Bembo’ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and which may be registered in certain other jurisdictions.



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