ITC Weidemann
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- Designer(s)
- Kurt Weidemann
- Foundry(ies)
- International Typeface Corporation , Linotype
- Release Year
- 1983
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- Classification
- Serif, Old Style, Venetian Old Style
- Original Format
- Photo-composition
- Distributor(s)
- Linotype
- Tags
- bible, biblica, economical, legible, old style, serif, space saving, venetian
Background
The ITC Weidemann® Font Family is part of the ITC Collection.
The Weidemann typeface’s original name was Biblica, which was designed for the collaborative publication of a Bible by the German Catholic and Protestant Churches. The mass of text which the face was intended to set required that the design allow many characters to fit onto one line without rendering the words illegible. Thus, narrow spacing does not compromise the legibility or the elegance of Weidemann.
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