Forte (typeface)

Forte

Category	Serif
Classification	Calligraphy
Designer(s)	Carl Reissberger
Foundry	Monotype Corporation
Date created	1962

Forte is a serif typeface designed by Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger in 1962 for the Monotype Corporation.

Design

The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.^[1] It is intended to give a contrast to sans-serif and classical modern types.^[1] Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.^[2]

Unicode

Forte has characters in the following Unicode ranges:^[3]

References

External links

Monotype typefaces

1900s	Old Style (1901) Modern Extended (1902) French Round Face (1906) Scotch Roman (1907 and 1920) Goudy Light (1908)

1910s	Veronese (1911) Forum Title (1911) Italian Old Style (1911) Imprint (1912) Plantin (1913) Caslon Old Face (1915)

1920s	Garamont (1921) Bodoni (1921) Garamond (1922) Baskerville (1923) Poliphilus and Blado (1923) Fournier (1925) Goudy Heavy (1925) Engravers Horley Old Style Grotesque (1926) Barbou (1926, private use) Colonna Bernard MT Gallia Pastonchi Othello Lutetia Solus Perpetua (1928) Gill Sans (1928 onwards) Centaur with Arrighi (1929) Bembo (1929) Deepdene (1929) Goudy Sans (1929)

1930s	Lutetia (1930) Bell (1931) Braggadocio Leysbourne Placard Kino Script Falstaff Inflex Littleworth Times New Roman (1932) Monoline Script Rockwell (1933) Walbaum (1933) Colmcille Runic Menhart Ashley Crawford Felix Titling Tempest Titling Van Dijck (1935) Emerson (1936) Gwendolin Gill Kayo Romulus (1936) Albertus Joanna (1937, for private use) Twentieth Century Ehrhardt (1937) Van Dijck (1937) Pegasus (1937) Matura (1938) Sachsenwald Haarlemmer Bulmer (private use)

1940s	Figaro

1950s	Festival Titling Spectrum (1955) Angelus Klang (1955) Ashley Script Fontana Swing Castellar (1957) Headline Bold Mercurius Script Dante (1959) Joanna (general release) (1958) Pepita (1959)

1960s	Univers (1961) Octavian (1961) Fontana (1961) Forte Apollo (1962) Traveller Albertina (1964) Cartier New Berolina Sabon (1966) Bulmer (1967) (general release) Fleet Titling (1967) Barbou (general release)

1970s	Photina

1980s	Calvert Nimrod Arial Footlight Calisto Cantoria

1990s	Amasis Century Gothic Book Antiqua Curlz Carré Noir Gill Facia Cachet

2000s	Neo Sans Slate

2010s	Joanna Sans (2015)

Release dates are approximate only. Not all typefaces shown.

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