9/20/2023 0 Comments Bembo typeface history![]() ![]() Alas it is a proprietary typeface, meant only for Yale University internal use. The great Matthew Carter has designed a Bembo-like typeface "Yale", which is meant for the University's print and web publications. Perhaps a commercial type house will produce a good computer Bembo someday soon. ET Bembo is used in "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint." It is a typeface just to get my books from lead to computer I'm not in the type distribution business so it will not be made available. So we made our own computer version and also made a some design changes (ligatures, several problems with the pi font, some letterforms, creation of a semibold). When converted to an electronic font, Monotype Bembo became thin and spindly (the computer people ignored "squeeze," the slight spreading of ink when the lead type hits the paper). My earlier books on analytical design were set in lead (!) in Monotype Bembo, an excellent book font. It will be used in my next book, Beautiful Evidence. Nowadays I don't have the time or interest to get involved with a software house.ĮT Bembo is a Bembo-like font for the computer designed by Dmitry Krasny, Bonnie Scranton, and myself. After SPSS took over Sigma Plot, the thing seemed to disappear. ![]() Years ago a scientific graphing program, Sigma Plot, constructed graphic templates of about 40 of my designs for statistical graphics in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. ![]()
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