Basilio

Basilio I n the late 1930s, old Egyptiennes (or Italiennes) returned to the collective consciousness of European printers and type houses — perhaps because political news were front and center — especially in France where the Le Figaro newspaper was seeing record circulation numbers. In 1939 both Monotype and Lettergieterij Amsterdam thought of the same idea: Make a new typeface similar to the reverse stress slab shapes that make up the titles of newspapers like Le Figaro and Le Frondeur. Both f

Foundry

Canada Type

Designers

hans-van-maanen, stefan-schlesinger

Scripts

latin, cyrillic, greek

Specimen

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