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Ehrhardt is an old-style serif typeface released by Monotype and intended for use in body text. Ehrhardt has a slightly condensed design, giving it a strongly vertical, crisp appearance. Ehrhardt is based on the "typefaces of stout Dutch character that the Ehrhardt foundry in Leipzig showed in a late-seventeenth-century specimen book".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://showinfo.rietveldacademie.nl/janson/images/e4.png )〕 These designs are believed to have been cut by the Hungarian priest and punchcutter Miklós (Nicholas) Tótfalusi Kis while working in Amsterdam in the period from 1680-9, a period of considerable prosperity for the Netherlands and a time when its printing was very influential across Europe.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Kis/MKis.pdf )〕 From 1937 to 1938, the Monotype corporation re-cut the type for modern-day usage, and it has become a popular book typeface. Monotype had already in around 1936 released Van Dijck, a revival of the work of Christoffel van Dijck (d. 1669), a slightly earlier Dutch Baroque punch-cutter. Users include the Penguin 60s series of books that were published to commemorate that company’s 60th anniversary, the current Oxford World’s Classics series (as of 2014) and many other Oxford University Press books, as well as ''The Iconic'' magazine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3823/the-iconic-men-s-magazine )〕 An extremely rare infant variant of the typeface also exists, which can be seen in the American edition of the book ''Hey! Get off Our Train'' by John Burningham. Released in 1967, Fleet Titling was a capitals-only design intended to serve as a companion for titling use. Monotype used it for their logo and letterhead.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.klingspor-museum.de/KlingsporKuenstler/Schriftdesigner/Peters/JohnPeters.pdf )〕 It was created by Monotype's occasional collaborator John Peters, a Cambridge University Press designer who also worked as a private printer, and had also designed Castellar Titling. Monotype has digitised Ehrhardt into the .ttf and .otf font formats. It is sold in standard and professional releases, some releases including text figures and small caps (in the roman style only). Like many early Monotype digitisations, it is sold under two releases credited both to Monotype itself and to Adobe, the latter only in the standard version without small caps.〔 Fleet Titling has not been digitised. Inspired by Ehrhardt, designer and lawyer Matthew Butterick created an updating called Equity, praising its 'satisfying heft and authority'. This design was inspired by the requirements of his work as a lawyer; it was created for sale with separate grades designed to suit different types of paper and printers, and separate small caps fonts (in regular and bold) intended for use in Word. Font Bureau also created the very large revival family Kis, adding a display size intended for headlines. It is used by the Los Angeles Times but has not been released for general sale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/KisFB/characters/ )〕 Linotype also revived the same designs in a less condensed form as Janson, after the printer Anton Janson, based in Leipzig, who it was once believed might have created them. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ehrhardt (typeface)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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