#bembo

On the spine of the CD case, "Sabrina Carpenter" is in Dozé Traditional (2020). (The designer of Dozé also makes music.)

"Man's Best Friend" is in CAL Bodoni Terracina (2020).

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On the back cover, "Presenting..." is in Künstler-Schreibschrift (1901).

"Sabrina Carpenter" is in Dozé again, but this time "MAN'S BEST FRIEND" is in Bembo (1929).

Typography Tuesday

Cinque stili di piombo per una misura di bellezza (Five Lead Types for a Measure of Beauty), letterpress printed in Verona, Italy by Alessandro Zanella (1955-2012) in a limited edition at his Edizioni Ampersand in 1988, presents five classic typefaces presented in typographic arrangements and representative quotes. The typefaces from top to bottom are:

Monotype Greek 90

Baskerville

Dante

Bembo

Bodoni

Spectrum

Born in Vicenza and raised in the Valdonega neighborhood of Verona, Alessandro Zanella became a student of American expatriate printer Richard Gabriel Rummonds (b. 1931) in 1976 and founded his own press, Edizioni Ampersand, in 1982, producing almost 200 titles until his unexpected death in 2012. Our copy of Cinque stili di piombo is another donation from our late friend Jerry Buff (1931-2025).

View other type specimen books.

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Description

English: A major arcana card in Visconti Sforza tarot deck, beautifully drawn in the mid XVth century by Italian artist Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. Four cards (out of seventy-eight) are lost from the deck (the fifteenth and sixteenth major arcana—respectively the Devil and the Tower—, the Knight of Coins, and the Three of Swords), thus seventy-four cards remain.Datemid XVth centurySourceThe card images were scanned by David Madore and published on the internet in 2003-09. They are scans of a fac simile version printed by AGMüller in Switzerland, though US Games Systems also seems to be somehow part of the editing process, which David bought in 2003-08 from an online store (broken link).AuthorBonifacio Bembo (1420–1480) Alternative names

Bembo, BonifazioDescriptionItalian painter and illuminatorDate of birth/death1420 after 1477Location of birth/deathBresciaMilanWork period1447–1477Work location

NEW EMOJIS

tagliente italic

1. copy is the final line of the second chapter, entitled «Italian script before 1500», in stanley morison’s Early Italian Writing-Books [david r. godine, boston, 1990, p43]. set in a custom-cast fount of 14pt bembo italic. an essay in period, venetian manner—sloped capitals had yet to be invented—capitals are fitted from 12pt bembo roman. for more typeface info vide ‹bembismo›.  monotype bembo italic, which was originally cut in 1929 [uk monotype 270], is based upon the fine cursive types originally shown in a 1524 writing manual of venetian writing master giovantonio tagliente. stanley morison had this to say: «The face used for the text of the writer’s early compilations is a fine flowing chancery cursive with an abundance of ligatures and swashes. It must have been difficult to cut and to cast, for it had the short life of three years. For the use intended to be made of it in 1929 it had to be severely revised. The ascenders were serifed, and the roman capitals mechanically slanted. … While not disagreeable, it is insipid; though it may serve the Bembo roman in some slavish sort its absence of character unfits it for textual use. … Rather the Bembo italic is a vulgarization.» [A Tally of Types, cup, 1973, p52]. 

letterpress on mohawk superfine softwhite eggshell.