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Centaur
Centaur is an old-style serif typeface designed by Bruce Rogers in 1914, initially created for a limited edition book published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The design is directly modeled after the roman typeface cut by Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470, featuring a delicate, Renaissance humanist structure. In 1929, the Monotype Corporation commissioned an adaptation for mechanical typese...
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Ehrhardt
Ehrhardt is a serif typeface produced by Monotype in 1938, based on historical types originally cut by the Hungarian punchcutter Miklós Kis in Amsterdam during the 1680s. The matrices for these old-style letters were later acquired by the Ehrhardt foundry in Leipzig, Germany, which gave the subsequent revivals their modern name. It features moderate thick-thin contrast, bracketed serifs, and a tra...
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