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Hunt Roman, the typeface used for
the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, was designed by world-renowned
type designer and typographer Hermann Zapf.
Rachel Hunt, who knew and loved
both fine printing and beautiful design, commissioned Hermann
Zapf to design a typeface that, while used as display type
with Spectrum Monotype, would make the Hunt Institute's publications
more elegant and graceful. Trial letters were approved by
Mrs. Hunt in 1961, and the typeface was first used for a program
for the Adanson Bicentennial Symposium in August of 1963.
Hunt Roman was Zapf's first private typeface design.
Hermann Zapf wrote of Hunt Roman,
"The little curves of the calligraphic flick, the intentions
of the bends, and the details of the transition of the bows
into the straight stems all these preserve the crispness of
the original drawings. ... The designer of Hunt Roman has
now the satisfaction of an actor after his performance, knowing
that all pains endured during the months of preparing the
drawings, cutting the characters in different sizes, and casting,
have been rewarded."
Hunt Roman Alphabet
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