Melina Plain BT
Melina Plain BT	$29.00
Melina Fancy BT
Melina Fancy BT	$29.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: March 25th, 2003
Designed by: Nick Curtis
Designed when: 2003
Contained in Category: Decorative & Display
Design owned by: Bitstream
MyFonts Keywords: 1920s, cincodemayo, decorative, fiesta, inline, mexican [suggest]

Melina BT

Melina Plain and Melina Fancy are characterized by graceful lines, strong contrast and nostalgic overtones. These typefaces are patterned after two members of a type family named Greco, released by Fundición Richard Gans of Madrid, Spain, in the 1920s. Melina Plain is a refined version of Greco Bold, and Melina Fancy is based on Greco Adornado, with the notable addition of a lowercase, which was not a part of the original design.

Melina is based on two typefaces (ca. 1920) from the Fundicion Richard Gans in Madrid, Spain.

Nick Curtis first found Greco Adornado in a type specimen at the Library of Congress. It was a cap only design. He made a cut of the original (Melina Fancy) and created his own lowercase, and many other characters to support contemporary character sets. Later he came across Greco Bold, which had a lowercase, but he chose not to use it and instead, adapted his Melina Fancy to create Melina Plain.

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