The history of Bembo typeface dates back to one of the most renowned printers of the Italian renaissance, Aldus Manutius. In 1496 he utilized a new roman typeface to the book de Aetna, a travel book by the famous writer Pietro Bembo. This type was done by Francesco Griffo who was a punchcutter and one of the first ones to move away from the humanist calligraphic look that was really heavy and bulky to the modern look that we see in the roman types today.
That is why, in 1929, Stanley Morison and the design staff at the Monotype Corporation developed a type design based on Griffo’s roman called Bembo. To adapt the font for machine composition several changes were made to the fifteenth-century letters which had been used in the original letters. The italic is based on letters cut by the Renaissance scribe Giovanni Tagliente, the second half of the fifteenth century.
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