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Officine Simoncini [Francesco Simoncini]

Francesco Simoncini (d. 1967) founded Officine Simoncini foundry in Bologna. The typefaces originating from that foundry:

  • The garalde family for book and newspaper work called Aster (1958). Aster Simoncini is also at Ludwig&Mayer (1958). See also URW++ Aster (by Ralph M. Unger), Austin (SoftMaker) and Dutch 823 (Bitstream).
  • New Aster (1958). New Aster was made in 1982 by Mergenthaler, Linotype, Stempel.
  • Armstrong (1970).
  • Delia (1962) was specially developed for small print in classified ads. Berry, Johnson and Jaspert write: An unusual newspaper type for small advertisements, almost sans serif in style, but with expanding feet. The characters avoid parallel lines, there is variation of stress, normally straight lines are slightly curved, and especially in the lower case there are gaps between the strokes in the individual characters. All this is designed to prevent any filling in in printing on newsprint.
  • Life (originally Ludwig&Mayer, 1965, done with W. Bilz), available from Elsner & Flake, Scangraphic, Linotype, Bitstream (first at Dutch 806, later as Life), Softmaker (as Lyon and L730 Roman), URW++ (URW++). There was also Fredonia by Varityper.
  • Simoncini Garamond (1958-1961). Done with Wilhelm Bilz, it is now available at Linotype, Adobe, Scangraphic and elsewhere under that name. The Scangraphic version is called Garamond Simoncini SB. The Elsner&Flake version is Garamond Simoncini EF. The Bitstream version is called Garamond Italian, Italian Garamond, and Aldine 525. A very related typeface is Garamont Amstrerdam EF (2004, Elsner & Flake). See also Garamond No. 9 by URW++.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

MyFonts catalog. Digital typefaces based on Simoncini's fonts.

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file name: Francesco Simoncini Simoncini Garamond 1961 Linotype Version


file name: Francesco Simoncini Simoncini Garamond 1961 Linotype Version


file name: U R W Garamond No9


file name: U R W Garamond No9 Extra Bold


file name: Elsner Flake Garamont Amsterdam E F 2004 after Francesco Simoncini


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini E F 2004


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini S B Catalog 2004


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini S B Extra Bold 2004


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini S B Extra Bold U C 2004


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini S B after Francesco Simoncini


file name: Scangraphic Garamond Simoncini S B Extra Bold after Francesco Simoncini


file name: Simoncini W Bilz Life 1965


file name: Francesco Simoncini W Bilz Life Bold U R W originally 1965


file name: Francesco Simoncini W Bilz Life Italic Bitstream originally 1965


file name: Francesco Simoncini W Bilz Life Roman Adobe originally 1965


file name: Linotype New Aster 1982 after Francesco Simoncini Aster 1957


file name: U R W Aster Medium by Francesco Simoncini


file name: U R W Aster


file name: Ralph M Unger Aster after Francesco Simoncini 1958


file name: Francesco Simoncini Delia 1962


file name: Francesco Simoncini Pic







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