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Bembo typeface anatomy3/18/2024 Pierpont was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and he was trained to be a mechanic and moved to Berlin in 1894 to work as a mechanic. Imprint, Plantin, Horley Oldstyle, Monotype Grotesque, and Bembo as well. Pierpont helped design at least four more typefaces other than Rockwell. According to Joep Pohlen, in his book Letter Fountain, Frank Hinman Pierpont was the head of the design group in Monotype Corporation who designed Rockwell, (327). Bembo, Blado, and Bodoni are some of the typefaces that the corporation originated. Monotype Corporation has at least forty nine typefaces that they created. Then the Monotype Corporation, in 1934, adopted the typeface and made their own version of the typeface that is being used today. According to the Typedia website, Rockwell was originally produced by the Inland type foundry in 1910, and then “American Type Founders revived the face in the 1920s, with Morris Fuller Benton cutting several new weights”. The Rockwell typeface that the world knows today is a slab serif typeface, also known as Egyptian serif.
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