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Ionic
Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: [Mergenthaler Linotype 1926; Linotype (London); Monotype] Ionic was originally another name for Egyptian and seems to have been first used by Stephenson Blake in a specimen around 1830. It has been revived as a suitable newspaper type. With its strong serifs it has been found to be legible in small sizes. It has short ascenders and descenders and greater differentiation of colour than in the parent Egyptian. It has some features resembling the modern face, such as the spur on the G, the tails of Q and R, the large eye of the e and the ear of the g. The italic in the lower case is very like the modern face. Linotype Ionic was introduced in 1926 in the New York Herald Tribune, and Intertype later cut their version of Ideal for the New York Times. There is also The Monotype Corporation's version of Ionic. |
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file name: Mergenthaler Linotype Ionic 1926
file name: Linotype Ionic
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