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This font is OpenType
(Windows and Macintosh Platforms)
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Embedding:
Preview & Print
End User License:
5 computers
Related Documents:
Glyph Complement (56K)
OpenType User Guide (1.3MB)
Typeface notes:
Designed in 1935 by William Addison Dwiggins, Electra has been a standard book typeface since its release because of its evenness of design and high legibility. In the specimen book for Electra, Dwiggins himself points out the type’s identifying characteristics: “The weighted top serifs of the straight letters of the lower case: that is a thing that occurs when you are making formal letters with a pen, writing quickly. And the flat way the curves get away from the straight stems: that is a speed product.” Electra is not only a fine text face but is equally responsive when set at display sizes, realizing Dwiggins’ intent when he set about the design: “...if you don’t get your type warm it will be just a smooth, commonplace, third-rate piece of good machine technique, no use at all for setting down warm human ideas, just a box full of rivets.... I’d like to make it warm, so full of blood and personality that it would jump at you.”
Designer:
William A. Dwiggins
Classifications:
Didone (Modern)
Small Caps & Old Style Figures
Legal notices:
Electra is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
Postscript File Name:
ElectraLTStd-Cursive
MAC Menu Name:
Electra LT Std Cursive
Windows/PC Menu Name:
Electra LT Std + italic style
Related OpenType packages:
Electra Std 1
Electra Std 2
Electra Std Full Family
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