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URW Antiqua

URW Antiqua™

by URW Type Foundry
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Complete family of 20 fonts: $104.99
URW Antiqua Font Family was designed by URW Design Staff and published by URW Type Foundry. URW Antiqua contains 63 styles and family package options.

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About URW Antiqua Font Family


URW Grotesk was designed exclusively for URW by Prof. Hermann Zapf in 1985. At the same time, Zapf designed URW Antiqua to go with URW Grotesk. At that time, we were working with a large German publishing house (Axel Springer) on type design solutions to replace certain of their newspaper fonts. Test pages of large German newspapers (e.g. Bildzeitung) were printed with URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua font families. For reasons not disclosed to us, the project was dropped and Springer never used URW Grotesk and URW Antiqua for that purpose. Anyway, Zapf finished his designs and URW produced both families. Zapf's intention for the two typefaces was to design two highly legible, open and classical fonts that could be used for any kind of typography, especially books, newspapers, magazines, etc. However, we realized later on, that URW Grotesk is very well suited for multi media applications on screen.

Designers: URW Design Staff

Publisher: URW Type Foundry

Foundry: URW Type Foundry

Design Owner: URW Type Foundry

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URW Antiqua™ is a trademark of URW++.

About URW Type Foundry

URW Type Foundry GmbH is a German company with a long and rich history in type design and engineering. As the direct successor of digital type pioneer URW GmbH, it continues to design and develop first class typefaces and custom projects. URW Type Foundry GmbH is renowned for a comprehensive library, a specialization in global font technology, and its overall role in type development.

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