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Diotima® from Adobe Diotima® is an Adobe font family with 2 styles priced from $29.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: December 3rd, 2007
Designed by: Gudrun Zapf von Hesse
Letterform design based on: Diotima
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Glyphic
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: calligraphic, decorative, glyphic [suggest]
Diotima
Gudrun Zapf von Hesse designed Diotima for D. Stempel AG. The roman was released in 1951, and the companion italic in 1953.
As with many of her faces, Diotima has a lively, calligraphic quality. The roman is light, with a generally wide lowercase. Characteristic letters are the splayed uppercase M, with no head serifs, and the lowercase g, with its open lower bowl. The italic is only slightly inclined and quite narrow. As Robert Bringhurst points out in The Elements of Typographic Style (see Type Bibliography in the Help view list), “The face is named, aptly, for the earliest woman philosopher on record: Diotima of Mantinea, whose metaphysic of love is recited in Plato’s Symposium by her former student, Socrates.”
Diotima has many uses, but works particularly well for ads, posters, sales literature, and well-leaded text.
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‘Diotima’ 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.
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