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Centaur (typeface)
Centaur is a serif typeface based on the printing of the Renaissance, originally drawn as titling capitals by Bruce Rogers in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.〔 Rogers later expanded it, adding lower case, for his 1915 limited edition of Maurice de Guérin's ''The Centaur''.
Rogers' primary influence was Nicholas Jenson's 1470 ''Eusebius,'' considered the model for the modern upright printing of the Roman alphabet, which Rogers studied through enlarged photographs. Centaur also shows the influence of types cut by Francesco Griffo in 1495 for a small book titled ''De Aetna'' written by Pietro Bembo. The typeface is classified as belonging to the humanist style of old-style designs, based on the predominant influence of Jenson's work. The style is also called Venetian for the city Jenson worked in.
For the original release, matrices were cut by Robert Wiebking and the type was privately cast by American Type Founders. Some years later, the Monotype Corporation commissioned Rogers to release it for the general market. Rogers did not feel able to create a matching italic, and asked the calligrapher Frederic Warde if he could pair Centaur with a design Warde had created based upon Ludovico Arrighi’s 1520 chancery face, made in 1926 for the Officina Bodoni.〔Friedl, Ott, and Stein, ''Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History.'' Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7, pp. 540-41.〕 The completed family was released for general use in 1929, with a first showing in Monotype's manual ''The Trained Printer and the Amateur'' by Alfred W. Pollard.〔Alexander S. Lawson, ''Anatomy of a Typeface'' David R. Godine: 1990. ISBN
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