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Candida

Candida®

by Bitstream
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Complete family of 3 fonts: $79.99
Candida Font Family was designed by Jakob Erbar, Walter Höhnisch and published by Bitstream. Candida contains 3 styles and family package options.

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About Candida Font Family


German designer Erbar drew the Candida typeface for the Ludwig & Mayer foundry shortly before his death in 1935. The typeface was released posthumously in 1936. An italic designed by Walter Höhnisch was published the following year and a reworked version was produced in 1945. Bold weights followed in 1951. Thanks to its clarity and readability in small sizes, the Candida family remained popular in the digital age.

Designers: Jakob Erbar, Walter Höhnisch

Publisher: Bitstream

Foundry: Bitstream

Original Foundry: Ludwig & Mayer

Design Owner: Bitstream

MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000

Candida® is a registered Trademark of Bauer Types.

About Bitstream

Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishing industry. The company’s founders shared a vision in which desktop publishing and digital type would open up doors and allow for the access of previously exclusive typefaces to a broader public audience. Eventually, this idea of opening up the type market led to the development of fonts like Amerigo and New Lincoln Gothic; designs that played huge roles in the launching, and eventual success, of desktop publishing. With best-selling typefaces like Futura in its line up, this library made an enormous impact on the type industry and helped to form it into what it is today.

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