Apollo - Type Specimen Booklet

apollo

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eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius

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guide TO

APOLLO CONTAINING

history of type designer adrian frutiger and font, type classification, anatomy of type, usage all details of the font family apollo.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

the comparative anatomy and binomial nomenclature of

BIRDS TWELVE UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIONS

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adrian frutiger

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he Swiss typeface designer born in

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faces, meaning he frequently revisited his

1928, Adrian Frutiger was Mostly

font families throughout his career. He con-

known for his sans serif fonts;

sidered sans serifs more intriguing to work

Univers, Frutiger, and Avenir. His career

with, as he considered them more difficult,

spread across several typesetting eras includ-

making Apollo a unique font of Frutiger’s. It

ing; hot metal, photocomposition typeset-

closely resembles another font of his called

ting, and digital. This allowed his typeface

MĂŠridien, but there are a few key stylistic

designs to consistently shape the direction of

differences. Adrian Frutiger designed over

type in the 20th century. This also gave him

70 Fonts during the span of his career before

the chance to build upon many of his type-

his death in 2015 at the age of 87.

adrian frutiger 5/24/1928 - 10/11/2015

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about apollo

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rutiger was commissioned by Mono-

enough, tends to fade into the background in

type, the company responsible for

comparison to Frutiger’s other, more famous,

Times New Roman, Arial, and Gill

fonts. The Greek God Apollo this font is

Sans among others, to create Apollo for pho-

named after is the god of music, poetry, art,

totypesetting between 1962 and 1964. A

sun, and light. Apollo is also associated with

print process made obsolete by the advent

many animal symbols including ravens and

of the personal computer. Apollo, oddly

crows.

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common raven Corvus corax

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ear Stroke projecting from the upper right bowl

link Stroke connecting stories

stem The primary vertical stroke of a letter

classification anatomy

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and

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pollo is an elegant and relatively

seen within the o's and Q's of the typeface.

simple Garalde typeface. These

They also have heavier contrast between

typefaces are largely identified

the upstroke and down strokes of the letter

by the crossbar within the lower case e as

forms. Which gives the font a more oldstyle

well as a slightly sloped axis which can be

and elegant look. Good for both bodies of

found within any counter but most easily

text and larger headings.

axis A line drawn from top to bottom in a letterform

terminal The end of a stroke

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comparative

ANATOMY and

binomial nomenclature of BIRDS

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or the following sections the varia-

For each of the following diagrams of

tions of the font family Apollo will

the font families, the example type is all

be displayed separately. The Apollo

set in the font style noted by the header

variations include Regular, Semi bold,

and sized at 20pt. This, however, excludes

Italic, and Small Caps. Old style figures are

the glyphs (set at various sizes) and oldstyle

included for each variation as well. Addi-

figures sized at 35pt. This example type

tionally, there is a set of glyphs for each vari-

includes the sets of lowercase forms, num-

ation of the font which are examined more

bers and glyphs, as well as uppercase forms.

closely on pages 22 and 23.

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14 Crossbar A horizontal stroke

apollo font family

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Regular

abcdef ghijklm nopqrst uvwxyz

12345 67890 .!-?,

ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ

broad-billed hummingbird Cynanthus latirostris

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ascender

An upward verticle stroke found on lowercase letters

apollo font family

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Semibold abcdef ghijklm nopqrst uvwxyz

12345 67890 .!-?,

ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ

pygmy Nuthatch Sitta pygmaea

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apollo font family

Italic abcdef ghijklm nopqrst uvwxyz

12345 67890 .!-?,

ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ

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serif The projection finishing off a stroke

hairline Thin stroke of a serif typeface

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counter Enclosed space within a letter

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apollo font family

Small Caps abcdef ghijklm nopqrst uvwxyz

ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRST UVWXYZ bowl Stroke that encloses a letter’s counter

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apollo font family

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Oldstyle Figures SEMIBOLD

REGULAR

ITALIC

12 34 56 78 90

12 34 56 78 90

12 34 56 78 90

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regular figure Number 1

oldstyle figure Number 1

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apollo font family

Glyphs

canada jay

Perisoreus canadensis

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apollo scaled ach font included within the Apollo

to show off Apollo. A standard of various

font family is optimized to be used

sizes can be found here, labeled, in an easy

in both a text and display font sizes.

guide. Text sizes run between 8 and 12 pts.

Throughout this specimen book a wide vari-

Display sizes run beginning at 14 pts and

ety of text and display sizes have been used

any size above.

8 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

9 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

10 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

11 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

12 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

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14 pt

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

18 pt abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

24 pt abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw

48 pt abcdefghijklm abcdefghijklm abcdefghijklmn abcdefghijkl

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ty peface Apollo

ty peface de sign Adrian Frutiger

book de sign &

il lustrations Emma Bersie

sou rce s https://www.allaboutbirds.org/ https://www.vogelwarte.ch/en/birds/birds-of-switzerland/ https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/apollo/

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eurasian jay

Garrulus glandarius