Basilio was created by Stefan Schlesinger, Hans van Maanen and published by Canada Type. Basilio contains 1 style. p > In the late 1930s, old Egyptiennes (or Italiennes) went back to the collective awareness of European printers and type houses - possibly because political news were front a centre, especially in France where Le Figaro newspaper was seeing record flow numbers. In 1939 both Monotype and Lettergieterij Amsterdam believed of the exact same idea: Make a new typeface similar to the reverse stress piece shapes that comprise the titles of papers like Le Figaro and Le Frondeur.

Both foundries meant to call their brand-new type Figaro. Monotype finished theirs initially, so they wound up with the name, and their type was currently released when Stefan Schlesinger completed his take for the Amsterdam foundry. Schlesinger's type was renamed Hidalgo (Spanish for a lower nobleman, 'child of something') and published in 1940 as 'a very happy variation on an old motif'. Although it wasn't an industrial success at the time, it was well gotten and thought about subtler and more refined than the similar types offered, Figaro and Playbill. In the 2nd World War, the Germans banned making use of the type, and Hidalgo never actually recovered.

Upon closer assessment, Schlesinger's work on Hidalgo was much more Euro-sophisticated and ahead of its time than the too-wooden cut of Figaro and the thick tightness of Playbill. It has a modern high contrast, a squarer skeleton, shape cuts that work likewise outside and inside, and airy and minimal services to the more complex shapes like G, K, M, N, Q and W. It is also far more aware of, and more accommodating to, the picket-fence result the thick top pieces create in setting.

Basilio (called after the signing instructor in Mozart's Figaro) is the digital revival and significant expansion of Hidalgo. With nearly 600 glyphs, it boasts Pan-European language assistance (most Latin languages, as well as Cyrillic and Greek), and a few OpenType tricks that gel everything together to make a really useful design tool.

Stefan Schlesigner was born in Vienna in 1896. He moved to the Netherlands in 1925, where he worked for Van Houten's chocolate, Metz outlet store, printing firm Trio and many other clients. He passed away in the gas chambers of Auschwitz in 1944. Digital revivals and growths of two of his other styles, Minuet and Serena, have actually likewise been released by Canada Type.

Font Family: Basilio

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