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William Addison Dwiggins,
Jacques de Sanlecque the elder,
David Berlow,
Jane Patterson,
Tobias Frere-Jones,
Tom Rickner

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Eldorado®


Eldorado® is a Font Bureau font family with 16 styles priced from $40.00.

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Eldorado®


Eldorado Text LightPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Light Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Light SCPurchase Options
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Light ItalicPurchase Options
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Light Italic SCPurchase Options
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$40.00

Eldorado Text RomanPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Roman Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Roman SCPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Roman SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text ItalicPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Italic SCPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Italic SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text BoldPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Bold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Text Bold ItalicPurchase Options
  Eldorado Text Bold Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Display RomanPurchase Options
  Eldorado Display Roman Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Display Roman SCPurchase Options
  Eldorado Display Roman SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Display ItalicPurchase Options
  Eldorado Display Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Display Italic SCPurchase Options
  Eldorado Display Italic SC Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Micro RomanPurchase Options
  Eldorado Micro Roman Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Eldorado Micro ItalicPurchase Options
  Eldorado Micro Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesDingbats & Symbols
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$40.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 1st, 2000
Designed by: William Addison Dwiggins, Jacques de Sanlecque the elder, David Berlow, Jane Patterson, Tobias Frere-Jones, Tom Rickner
Designed when: 1953,1997
Design owned by: Font Bureau
Originally created by: Mergenthaler
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Eldorado

Of W. A. Dwiggins’ wartime experiments, the most successful was Eldorado, released by Mergenthaler in 1953. With unusual fidelity, he followed an early roman lowercase, cut in the 16th century by Jacques de Sanlecque the elder, aer Granjon.

Berlow, Frere-Jones, and Rickner revived and expanded the series in 1993-94 for Premiere magazine, with versions not only for text and display, but a Micro for six point and smaller


Related Links

 • Font Bureau: Eldorado Sample PDF (English)

‘Eldorado’ is a registered trademark of Linotype GmbH which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.



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