• Francesco Griffo (1450–1518), also called Francesco da Bologna, was a fifteenth-century Italian punchcutter. He worked for Aldus Manutius, designing the...
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  • Griffo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Francesco Griffo (1450–1518), Venetian punchcutter Jack Griffo (born 1996), American actor...
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    with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the...
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  • by Francesco Griffo between 1449 and 1516. Mardersteig had become acquainted with Griffo's type in the design of his previous typeface, called Griffo. One...
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  • cut by Francesco Griffo. 1495–1498 – Aldus Manutius publishes the Aldine Press edition of Aristotle in Venice. 1496: February – Francesco Griffo cuts the...
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    Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo. The letterforms were based on a synthesis of Roman inscriptional capitals...
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    typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495, and are in what is now called the old-style of serif letter...
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    typeface developed by Aldus Manutius in Venice, from punches cut by Francesco Griffo and first used in 1500 for the small portable series of inexpensive...
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    Bembo is a roman typeface (shown with italic) dating to 1928 based on punches cut by Francesco Griffo in 1494....
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  • Giambattista Bodoni (Bodoni) Alessandro Butti (Microgramma, Rondine) Francesco Griffo (Bembo, Poliphilus) Aldus Manutius Aldo Novarese (Novarese, Eurostile...
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    Venice, 1501, and was practised by designer-printers Nicolas Jenson and Francesco Griffo; roman type has helped establish the remarkable resistance to change...
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  • the literary events and publications of 1501. Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
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    readers" with the cursive typeface. Manutius commissioned the punchcutter Francesco Griffo of Bologna to create the new typeface. The handwriting reproduced for...
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    closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo (a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces), and Claude...
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  • on the "e", descend from an influential 1495 font cut by engraver Francesco Griffo for printer Aldus Manutius, which became the inspiration for many typefaces...
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    is famous for its quality and clarity. Its roman typeface, cut by Francesco Griffo, is a revised version of a type which Aldus had first used in 1496...
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    type, commissioned by Manutius and cut by Francesco Griffo in 1499, was a closely spaced condensed type. Griffo's punches are a delicate translation of the...
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    letters and ligatures. The Grecs du roi were influenced by types cut by Francesco Griffo and used by printer Aldus Manutius in Venice. The types formed the...
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    leisure reading. Manutius' italic type was cut by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo (who later, following a dispute with Manutius, claimed to have conceived...
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  • history of Aldine typefaces begins with an Italian punchcutter named Francesco Griffo who worked for the printer Aldus Manutius. In general, the Aldine typefaces...
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    printing activity. Significant contributions came from Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo, Aldus Manutius, and other printers of late 15th-century Europe. Gutenberg's...
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    improve upon the Humanistic font designs of Jenson's typefaces, hiring Francesco Griffo to design and cut typefaces for his print editions of classical literature...
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    native Florence, to begin work on the statue David. Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
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  • first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the...
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    enlarged photographs. Centaur also shows the influence of types cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 for a small book titled De Aetna written by Pietro Bembo. The...
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    Roman type for me. The late 15th century De Aetna typeface, cut by Francesco Griffo for Aldus Manutius, served as a basis for Yale, with elements of one...
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  • events and publications in the 16th century. 1501 Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
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    first book printed in the old-style serif or humanist typeface cut by Francesco Griffo (known from the 20th century as Bembo) and with early adoption of the...
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    from the same sheet. The type was probably designed, cut, and cast by Francesco Griffo and Jacomo Ungaro, both of whom were in Venice at the time. The collection...
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  • conquests in the northern territories of Italy. Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in...
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