Pistilli Roman Type Specimen

Pistilli Roman

TYPE SPECIMEN

Pistilli Roman

TYPE SPECIMEN

Pistilli Roman is a typeface collaboratively designed by Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli. Pistilli was a partner with Lubalin in New York City at the firm Sudler & Hennessey from 1949 to 1964.

Pistilli Roman’s distinctive and curvaceous ampersand has won many fans and acclaims in the design community and spawned many look-alike typefaces.

Exclusive highly elegant and unique

In 1969, Phil Martin, of Alphabet Innovations, produced a Pistilli Roman replica with many of the same swashes and alternate characters named Didoni.

The difference being that Didoni had hairline strokes that were typically thicker by a small percentage and also lacked the fancy ampersand that was a trademark of Pistilli Roman.

Spreads from “Phil’s Photo Book” (1985)

Besides Pistilli Roman’s rare appearance inside of the type specimen book titled “Phil’s Photo Book”, it is a largely unknown and mysterious typeface.

The only acknowledged versions of the original hard copy phototypes for Pistilli Roman are located in Brooklyn, NY with a company named Incipit. Incipit is a design firm that also houses a rare photocomposition library with approximately 3,500 available typefaces, including four different weights of Pistilli Roman.

ABCDE FGHIJKL MNOP QRSTUVW XYZ

UPPER CASE 56 PTS.

abcde fghijkl mnop qrstuvw xyz

LOW ER CASE 56 PTS.

123 456 789 0 NUMBERS 100 PTS.

&ß § ¶ ¡ ! ¿?€ $ £ ()[]{}® ¢ † ‡ * SY MBOLS 70 PTS.

ABCDEFGH QRSTUVWX ijklmnopqr 4567890&ߧ { } ® ¢ † ‡ * A B C D MNOPQRST cdefghijklm yz123456789 $ £ ( ) [ ] { } ® ¢ † ‡ * A IJKLMNOPQ

HIJKLMNOP YZabcdefgh stvwxyz123 §¶¡!¿?€$£()[] DEFGHIJKL TUVWXYZab mnopqrstvwx 90ß §¶¿?¡&!€ ABCDEFGH QRSTUVWX

T Y P E S P E C I M E N D E S I G N E D BY Juan Manuel Corredor (+1) 415 - 481 - 7799 juan.m.corredor.b@gmail.com

BIBLIOGRAPHY The Gradient Ryan Gerald Nelson “Pistilli Roman”, December 26, 2007.

(Web). 10th August 2015. http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2007/12/26/pistilli-roman

OT H E R C R E D I T S Originally created by Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli, Pistilli Roman was never realized in printing and has been renamed Eloquent, digitalized by Veer (www.veer.com) This version of Pistilli Roman was digitalized by Claude Pelletier // claudeserieux@gmail.com

Y E A R O F P U B L I C AT I O N Copyright © 2016, Printed in San Francisco.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.