Information
Marconi was created by Hermann Zapf in 1973. According to Gerard Unger, it was the world’s first digital typeface. Zapf’s design was developed as a text face for books and magazines. The round forms of the Marconi follow the principle of the superellipse. The lowercase letters are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced. The 8-point size — normally used for newspapers — looks more like 9 1/2 points. Marconi is a legible typeface with its large and open lowercase letters. It is ideal for long text blocks in newspaper, book, and magazine production.
Technical Information
- Designer Hermann Zapf
- Styles 4
- Glyph Count 556
- Released 1973
OpenType Features
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Supported languages
Afar, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asu, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Taita, German, Lower Sorbian, Embu, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Filipino, Faroese, French, Friulian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Swiss German, Gusii, Manx, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Lojban, Machame, Jju, Kamba, Makonde, Kabuverdianu, Kikuyu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Shambala, Colognian, Kurdish, Cornish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Luo, Luyia, Latvian, Meru, Morisyen, Malagasy, Makhuwa-Meetto, Maori, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian Bokmål, North Ndebele, Low German, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, South Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Rundi, Romanian, Rombo, Kinyarwanda, Rwa, Samburu, Sangu, Sardinian, Sena, Sango, Sidamo, Slovak, Slovenian, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Swati, Saho, Southern Sotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Silesian, Teso, Turkmen, Tswana, Turkish, Taroko, Tsonga, Volapük, Vunjo, Walloon, Walser, Warlpiri, Xhosa, Soga, Zulu
Buying Guide
We offer the possibility of buying individual styles as well as complete families, with a link to the official Monotype Website.
Overview
Marconi
36 px
Marconi Book
Marconi Book Italic
Marconi SemiBold
Marconi SemiBold Italic
Marconi
50 px
The principle of the
superellipse
Columns
Marconi
Marconi was created by Hermann Zapf in 1973. According to Gerard Unger, it was the world’s first digital typeface. Zapf’s design was developed as a text face for books and magazines. The round forms of the Marconi follow the principle of the superellipse. The lowercase letters are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced. The 8-point size — normally used for newspapers — looks more like 9 1/2 points. Marconi is a legible typeface with its large and open lowercase letters. It is ideal for long text blocks in newspaper, book, and magazine production.
Marconi was created by Hermann Zapf in 1973. According to Gerard Unger, it was the world’s first digital typeface. Zapf’s design was developed as a text face for books and magazines. The round forms of the Marconi follow the principle of the superellipse. The lowercase letters are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced. The 8-point size — normally used for newspapers — looks more like 9 1/2 points. Marconi is a legible typeface with its large and open lowercase letters. It is ideal for long text blocks in newspaper, book, and magazine production.
Marconi
50 px
Marconi was created by Hermann Zapf in 1973. According to Gerard Unger, it was the world’s first digital typeface. Zapf’s design was developed as a text face for books and magazines. The round forms of the Marconi follow the principle of the superellipse. The lowercase letters are enlarged as the result of reading tests, while the capital letters are slightly reduced.