Venezia
Typewriter script in italic grace
Venezia is one of three designs that the commercial artist, illustrator and typographer Axel Bertram developed from 1976-1979 for the Erika travel typewriter from the Schreibmaschinenwerk Dresden.
The typewriter typeface is based on the classical italic typefaces of the Italian Renaissance, in particular the fonts created by Francesco Griffo around 1500 for the Venetian publisher Aldus Manutius. The uniform letter width of the travel typewriter required some intervention in the typeface appearance: “All letters”, said Betram, “have to be made to have the same width, which is fundamentally contrary to the anatomy of the Latin script.”