Hard to believe now, but there was a time when books were all written by hand, came in large and bulky volumes available only to the very few – and very rich. Imagine monks seated in their ‘scriptorium’, hunched over […]
Tag: Bembo
Typeface of the week – Bembo
Since as long ago as 1496, readers have enjoyed books typeset in Bembo. The very name comes from the first book to use the face – a small volume of poems by the Italian cleric Pietro Bembo. The face […]