Calisto MT
Serif typeface
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| Category | Serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Old style serif |
| Designer(s) | Ron Carpenter |
| Foundry | Monotype Imaging |
| Date released | 1987 |
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Calisto MT is an old style, serif typeface designed for the Monotype Corporation foundry in 1986 by Ron Carpenter, a British typographer.
Calisto MT is intended to function as both a typeface for body text and display text. Its stroke contrast is minimal and it preserves an even color, especially in smaller point sizes, which contributes to its great legibility. Its Roman and italic glyphs are animated by serifs and terminals that are cut on an angle to the baseline, and are concavely indented on the terminals, reminiscent of the Belwe and Palatino typefaces. Minuscule glyphs are of a somewhat large corpus size.[1]
References
- ^ Friedlander, Joel (February 2012). "Book Design: Don't Get Confused By Typeface Point Sizes". The Book Designer. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
- Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
External links
- Monotype web page on Calisto
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Monotype typefaces
- Modern
- Old Style (1900)
- French Round Face (1906)
- Scotch Roman (1907 and 1920)
- Goudy Light (1908)
- Veronese (1911) and Italian Old Style (1919)
- Forum Title (1911)
- Imprint (1912)
- Plantin (1913)
- Caslon Old Face (1915)
- Garamont (1921)
- Bodoni (1921)
- Garamond (1922)
- Baskerville (1923)
- Poliphilus and Blado (1923)
- Italian Old Style (Goudy, 1924/7)
- Fournier (1925)
- Goudy Heavy (1925)
- Engravers
- Horley Old Style
- Grotesque 215 (1926)
- Barbou (1926, private use)
- Bernard MT
- Gallia
- Othello (1928)
- Lutetia
- Perpetua (1928)
- Pastonchi (1928)
- Gill Sans (1928 onwards)
- Centaur with Arrighi (1929)
- Bembo (1929)
- Deepdene (1929)
- Goudy Sans (1929)
- Solus (c. 1929)
- Lutetia (1930)
- Ashley Crawford (1930)
- Braggadocio (1930)
- Bell (1931)
- Leysbourne
- Placard
- Kino
- Script
- Falstaff
- Inflex
- Littleworth
- Times New Roman (1932)
- Zarotto/Mardersteig (1932)
- Monoline Script
- Walbaum (1933)
- Jocunda (1933)
- Rockwell (1934)
- Colmcille
- Runic
- Menhart
- Felix Titling (1934)
- Tempest Titling
- Van Dijck (1935)
- Fontana (for Collins) (1935)
- Grock (1935)
- Gwendolin (for the Greynog Press) (1935)
- Emerson (1936)
- Gill Kayo
- Romulus (1936)
- Albertus (1935-9)
- Bulmer (for R & R Clark) (1937)
- Joanna (for J.M. Dent) (1937)
- Twentieth Century
- Ehrhardt (1937)
- Van Dijck (1937)
- Pegasus (1937)
- Matura (1938)
- Sachsenwald
- Haarlemmer
- Palace and Dorchester Script (1938)
- Figaro (1940)
- Condensa (1951)
- Festival Titling (1951)
- Spectrum (1955)
- Angelus
- Klang (1955)
- Ashley Script (1956)
- Swing
- Headline Bold
- Castellar (1957)
- Mercurius (1957)
- Dante (1957)
- Joanna (general release) (1958)
- Pepita (1959)
- New Clarendon (1960)
- Univers (1961)
- Octavian (1961)
- Fontana (public release) (1961)
- Forte
- Apollo (1962)
- Traveller
- Albertina (1964)
- Cartier
- New Berolina
- Sabon (1967)
- Fleet Titling (1967)
- Barbou (general release)
- Photina (1972)
- News Plantin (1979)
- Calvert (1979)
- Nimrod (1980)
- Arial
- Footlight
- Calisto
- Cantoria
- Ellington (1990)
- Amasis
- Century Gothic
- Book Antiqua
- Curlz
- Carré Noir
- Columbus (1992)
- Strayhorn (1995)
- Cachet
- Gill Facia
- Neo Sans
- Slate
- Classic Grotesque (2012/2016)
- SST (2013)
- Joanna Sans (2015)
Dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.
