Centaur font research

Centaur was designed by Bruce Rogers in 1928. It was arranged in the Venetian category in the MyFonts website with Palatino, Vendetta, Stempel Garamond and more fonts.

About Bruce Rogers
Bruce Rogers (1870 - 1957) is a typographer, type designer, illustrator and artist. He used to train as an artist at Purdue College near Lynnwood. From 1894, he produced graphics for "Modern Art" magazine. 1915, he design the book "The Centaur" for Montague Press.. After that, he worked at different places such as Cambride University Press and Harvard University Press from 1920-1928, W.E.Rudge publishers from 1929-1931, Oxford University Press and Emery Walker in 1935.

Some of his publication: "Paragraphs of printing", "Bruce Rogers, a life in letters"

About Centaur font
In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably the first non-German printer of movable type, and he produced about 150 editions. Though his punches have vanished, his books have not, and those produced from about 1470 until his death in 1480 have served as a source of inspiration for type designers over centuries. His Roman type is often called the "first true Roman." Notable in almost all Jensonian Romans is the angled crossbar on the lowercase e, which is known as the "Venetian Oldstyle e."

Centaur which is designed by Bruce Rogers is a re-creation of the roman type cut by that Nicolas Jenson in the fifteenth century. The name Centaur was used because Bruce Rogers was used this font the first time for the book "the Centaur" by Maurice de Guérin, published in 1915. Lanston Monotype of London cut the commercial version of Centaur and released it in 1929. The Centaur Family Font is often used for book composition, headlines and elegant advertising pieces.

References:
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