Electra
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: William Addison Dwiggins
Designed when: 1994
Contained in Category: Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
Originally created by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: book, booktext, elegant, formal, personaltext, serif, transitional [suggest]

Electra

This is W.A. Dwiggins’ personal version of the Transitional roman, designed for C.H. Griffith at Mergenthaler.

Electra

Venecian Old Face fonts had a strong influence on typeface design in the 1930s and 1940s in England. Such influence is evident in the font Electra, designed by William A. Dwiggins for Linotype in 1935. Electra combines its classic roots with the Zeitgeist of the 1930s, also displaying characteristics of the Bauhaus and Art Deco styles.

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