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SchoolBook

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SchoolBook is a ParaType font family with 4 styles priced from $25.00.

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SchoolBook


School BookPurchase Options
  SchoolBook Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicDingbats & Symbols
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$25.00

School Book ItalicPurchase Options
  SchoolBook Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicDingbats & Symbols
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$25.00

School Book BoldPurchase Options
  SchoolBook Bold Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicDingbats & Symbols
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$25.00

School Book Bold ItalicPurchase Options
  SchoolBook Bold Italic Basic Latin/English lettersWest European diacriticsEuroLigaturesCentral EuropeBalticTurkishRomanianCyrillicDingbats & Symbols
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$25.00

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 8th, 2003
Designed by: Morris Fuller Benton, Yelena Tzaregorodtseva
Designed when: 1996
Letterform design based on: Century Schoolbook
Contained in Categories: Legible, Monospaced, Transitional
Design owned by: ParaType
MyFonts Keywords: 1910s, 1970s, American, books, clarendon, coarse, complex, Didone, fax, fiction, heavy serif, legible, magazine, masculine, memos, modern, monospace, news, news headline, news text, roman serif, serif, technical, transitional


School Book

The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1949-61 (project manager Elena Tsaregorodtseva).

Based on Shkolnaya (‘School’) typeface, 1939 (project manager Evgeny Chernevsky), a version of Century Schoolbook of American Type Founders, 1915-1923 by Morris F.Benton.

The low-contrast text typeface of the Ionic-Legibility group, it is designed expressly for schoolbooks and children books.


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