Forte (typeface)

Forte

Category	Serif
Classification	Calligraphy
Designer(s)	Carl Reissberger
Foundry	Monotype Corporation
Date created	1962

Forte is a serif typeface designed by Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger in 1962 for the Monotype Corporation.

Design

The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.^[1] It is intended to give a contrast to sans-serif and classical modern types.^[1] Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.^[2]

Unicode

Forte has characters in the following Unicode ranges:^[3]

References

External links

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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