Calisto MT


Category	Serif
Classification	Old style serif
Designer(s)	Ron Carpenter
Foundry	Monotype Imaging
Date released	1987

Sample

Calisto MT is an old style serif typeface designed in 1986 for the Monotype foundry by Ron Carpenter, British typographer, born 1950.

The Calisto face is intended to function as both a text and display face. Stroke contrast is minimal and maintenance of even color, especially in smaller point sizes, contributes to high legibility. Roman and italic characters are animated by serifs and terminals cut on an angle to the baseline, and a concave indent at the terminals reminiscent of Belwe and Palatino types. Minuscule characters have a somewhat large x-height.^[1]

External links

References

↑ Friedlander, Joel. "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.

Monotype typefaces

1900s	Binny Old Style

1910s	Imprint Plantin

1920s	Garamond Bodoni Poliphilus Blado Fournier Engravers Baskerville Horley Old Style Grotesque Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Gill Sans Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua Centaur with Arrighi Bembo

1930s	Bell Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman Walbaum Monoline Script Rockwell Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck Emerson Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus Albertus Joanna (for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt Pegasus Matura Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer

1940s	Figaro

1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum Angelus Klang Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar Headline Bold Mercurius Script Joanna (general release) Dante Pepita

1960s	Octavian Forte Apollo Traveller Albertina Cartier New Berolina Fleet Titling Sabon Barbou

1970s	Photina

1980s	Calvert Nimrod Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria

1990s	Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Gill Facia Cachet

2000s	Neo Sans Slate

2010s	Joanna Sans

Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.

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