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Hadriano and VAG Rounded

Noah Nazir
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Last edited August 13, 2018
Hadriano
VAG Rounded
vortex
wunderkinder
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When traveling in Paris, American designer Frederic W. Goudy did a rubbing of a second century marble inscription he found in the Louvre. After ruminating on these letterforms for several years, he drew a titling typeface in 1918, all around the letters P, R, and E. He called the new face "Hadriano" as that name was in the original inscription. Robert Wiebking cut the matrices, and the... Read More

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