Corona
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Chauncey H. Griffith
Designed when: 1941
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: legible, news, newstext, serif, transitional [suggest]

Corona

Decreasing width of the American newspaper web led to narrower news columns, and a demand for a more condensed typeface. Reaction from the quiet texture of Excelsior suggested a stronger contrast, more like Regal. Griffith designed Linotype Corona, which has been the leading American news design for the last thirty-five years. Extreme pressure for large sizes on narrow columns lead to condensed teletypesetter versions that lacked legibility, particularly in many of the unlicensed versions. [A darker derivative is Aurora.]

Corona

Corona was designed by C.H. Griffith and appeared with Mergenthaler Linotype in 1941. It is a part of Griffith’s ‘Legibility Group’, on which he began working in 1922 and which contains typefaces especially well-suited to newsprint. Corona is based on forms of the Ionic type, perhaps the first style designed specifically for newspapers. The font is relatively small but gives an impression of strength and modernity.

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