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Category | Display |
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Designer(s) | Freeman Craw |
Foundry | ATF |
Date released | 1961 |
Re-issuing foundries | Bitstream Inc. |
Design based on | the work of title designer and calligrapher Harold Adler |
Ad Lib is a display typeface designed in 1961 by Freeman Craw for American Type Founders. The typeface was allegedly inspired by Harold Adler's design for the 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse . [1] [2] Filmotype also designed a narrow variant, Filmotype Pioneer [3] and a wider variant, Filmotype Moose. [4]
Originally released with two variants for many characters, [5] the digital versions seen today offer only one variant. [2]