Ionic (newspaper) typefaces

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Ionic (newspaper) typefaces [Uli Stiehl] In these two PDF files (in German, dated 2009), Uli Stiehl compares various Ionic typefaces---these are types often used in newspapers. The Ionic typefaces date from ca. 1850 and were designed for small point sizes like 8pt. The pater familias of the Ionic typefaces is Ionic no. 5 (C.H. Griffith, 1926). In the digital age, we rediscover it as Bitstream's News 701 BT and in a severely modernized fashion, as Ionic No 5 (2021, by Malou Verlomme and Clement Charbonnier Bouet for Monotype). Other names and versions include Aurora BT (also called News 706 BT) based on Jackson Burke's original metal font Aurora, Imperial BT, Corona (Linotype), News 705 BT (which is Bitstream's Corona), Nimrod MT, Clarion MT. Monotype's Ionic MT is, according to Stiehl, too spindly and useless at small point sizes. The comparisons also cover typefaces further afield, such as Concorde BT, Bembo, Century Schoolbook URW, Bembo Book MT, Utopia PS Adobe, Plantin MT, Vectora LT, Textype (or Century 731 BT), Excelsior LT. He has a scan of a Mergenthaler Linotype catalog from 1950 which advertises Ionic No 5 in sizes from 5 to 12pt.	EXTERNAL LINKS MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Choice of fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿