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Grafia Latina (or Graphie Latine)
A traditionalist movement in France in the 1950s that emerged under the impetus of Enric Crous-Vidal and Maximilien Vox. It emerged during the process of change from lead composition to photocomposition, with Vox as a major figure influenced by the theories of his friend Stanley Morison. Its ideology was based on the concept of Latin universalism that considered the Latin alphabet as culturally superior to any other model, in particular the more functional modern typography proposed and practiced by the Germans and the Swiss. Grafia Latina defended a drawn and humanist model of typeface. Their positions and theories were discussed during annual meetings known as the Rencontres de Lure and led to the Ecole de Lure, an organism for disseminating a journal. Contemporary type historians studying this movement include Manuel Sesma, Raquel Pelta, and Sebastien Morlighem. |
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file name: Fonderie Olive Poster 1954
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