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Antonio Cavedoni - The Officine Simoncini

“The Officine Simoncini”: You may have heard about Nebiolo, but between the 1950s and the 1970s, if you were into text typography in Italy, the name of the game was a different one: Simoncini. Based on the outskirts of Bologna and rising from the ashes of the war, the Simoncini family established themselves as the largest Italian producer of Linotype matrices, and therefore of text typefaces. Their output eventually consisted of well-known designs for continuous reading like Garamond Simoncini, Aster, Life, and Permanent, and of experimental agate faces like Delia and Selene, which we will take a close look at. Francesco Simoncini, entrepreneur, engineer, and designer, also patented a system for the preventive distortion of letter shapes for better printing results. For the first time, we present to the international typographic community our ten-year research project on the Officine Simoncini and highlight their significance in the history of type design.