Aurora (typeface)

Aurora
Category Serif
Classification Transitional
Designer(s) Jackson Burke
Foundry Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Date released 1960
Design based on Corona

Aurora is a serif typeface, designed by Jackson Burke (the successor to Chauncey H. Griffith at Mergenthaler Linotype) in 1960. The font is a darker derivative of the Corona typeface, initially designed for the Canada NewsWire.

The News 706 typeface by Bitstream Inc. is almost identical to Aurora.

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