| Date: 1976
Designer:
Hermann Zapf
Foundry:
Linotype Hell
Location:
Frankfurt, Germany
Current equivalent:
Linotype Marconi (Marconi Bold shown above)
See also:
Linotype Melior by the same designer
Technologies:
Digital Photosetting
Postscript
Opentype | | Famous for:
First typeface created with the aid of URW Ikarus CAD system.
Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting
Ubiquity:
Not widely used
Category:
20th century Serif Roman
Stress: Vertical
Serifs: Bracketed Serif | | Design history:
Hermann Zapf's prolific output included Marconi, a text face for books and magazines available in four weights with italics. The round forms of Marconi follow the principle of the superellipse – a form between oval and square. The lowercase letters are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced. Therefore it is a highly legible, open face at small sizes, and suitable for long texts. Created originally in 1973 for the Digiset (a digital typesetting system produced by the German firm Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH), Marconi was released three years later, subsequently re-released by Linotype in 1990 when Linotype merged with the Hell Corporation. | |  |
