Britannic (typeface)

Britannic Condensed, a version of Britannic, shown on a phototypesetting specimen sheet.

Britannic is a sans-serif typeface family that was sold in metal type by Stephenson Blake. It is a "modulated" or stressed sans-serif design, in which the vertical lines are clearly thicker than the horizontals.[1][2][3] The Klingspor Museum reports that it was originally created by the Wagner & Schmidt foundry of Leipzig, Germany.[4][5]

Since Stephenson Blake did not continue operations into digital fonts, a variety of digitisations of different weights and widths of Britannic have been released by different companies.[6][7][8] The bold weight, digitised by URW, is included with some Microsoft software such as Office.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Coles, Stephen. "Identifont blog Feb 15". Identifont. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. ↑ The encyclopaedia of type faces. Barnes & Noble. 1970. p. 256.
  3. ↑ Coles, Stephen. "Black Swan Movie Posters". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Die Firmen der Familie Wagner" (PDF). Klingspor Museum. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Kupferschmid, Indra. "How Wagner & Schmidt complicated type history". ATypI. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  6. ↑ "Britannic". MyFonts. Linotype. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Britannic". MyFonts. URW++. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Britannic EF". MyFonts. Elsner + Flake. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Britannic Bold - Version 1.50". Microsoft. Retrieved 5 May 2016.

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