Alessandro Butti

Alessandro Butti (b. 1893 – d. 1959 in Turin) was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin where he was art director of the Nebiolo type foundry. He also taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia. Microgramma is his most famous face. After Butti's death, his collaborator on that face, Aldo Novarese, added a lower case which was then called Eurostile.

Alessandro Butti
Born1893
Died1959
Turin, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known fortypography
Notable work
Microgramma

Fonts designed by Alessandro Butti

gollark: Okay then!
gollark: Opera's based on Chromium's rendering stuff and is closed source.
gollark: Why do you have that much? More than two Chrome tabs?
gollark: GPU and CPU, apparently.
gollark: Folding@Home's client isn't actually open source, and who knows if they're just executing arbitrary code from people through it?

References

  • Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
  • Friedl, Ott, and Stein, Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. Black Dog & Levinthal Publishers: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
  • Font Designer - Alessandro Butti
  • MyFonts - Alessandro Butti


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