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Elmhurst
In 1994, Christopher Slye decided to design Elmhurst as the best way to learn something about type.“I thought that a typeface intended for continuous text would be the most challenging to design,” he recalls,...
Elli
The typeface Elli was named to honor Eleanor Garvey, Houghton Library’s famed and much-loved Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University. For Elli’s 1990 retirement, Bill Bentinck-Smith commissioned Jean Evans to design...
El Grande
You have seen El Grande in mid-century comic books, used wherever simple, black-and-white ideas had to be driven hard, all the way home. The design was adopted by American grocery stores, by supermarkets, by...
Eldorado
Of W. A. Dwiggins’ wartime experiments, the most successful was Eldorado, released by Mergenthaler in 1953. With unusual fidelity, he followed an early roman lowercase, cut in the 16th century by Jacques de Sanlecque...