Perpetua (typeface)
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Perpetua is a serif typeface that was designed by the English sculptor and stonemason Eric Gill for the British Monotype Corporation. Perpetua was commissioned at the request of Stanley Morison, an in
A Gill inscription in memorial to Sir Harry Johnston, showing some similarities to Perpetua.
The first specimen of Perpetua in The Fleuron, a magazine on fine printing edited by Morison.
Perpetua in a metal type sample, showing the flourishes on italic 'B', 'D', 'P', 'Q' and 'R'
A 1947 publicity manual advertising Hopton Wood stone, a limestone often used by Eric Gill for his carvings. Perpetua Italic is used for the heading and Baskerville for body text.
Italic type
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In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of West
Aldus Manutius' italic, in a 1501 edition of Virgil. Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals.
Sample of Niccoli's cursive script, which developed into Italic type
Catherine of Siena, Epistole ("Letters"), published in Venice by Aldo Manuzio in September 1500: illustrated table in which appear the first words ever printed in italics: iesus, inside the heart in the left hand and iesu dolce iesu amore inside the book in the right hand.
A page from La Operina by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, showing early "chancery italic" typeface