A set of floriated caps and numerals produced at Enschedé and
released in 1960. [Reichardt] Also cast by Stephenson Blake and
introduced in 1958. [Google
Books] The shadowed openface is based on a typeface by Molé, a
Parisian founder who operated in the first half of the 19th
century.
The revival is credited to Sem Hartz. However, according to
Johan de Zoete, curator of the Enschedé Museum, it was Pieter
Wetselaar who was greatly responsible for completing and cutting
the typeface. [Dutch Type]
Mole Foliated (anonymous, 1997, used for the
sample) is an unsatisfactory digitization. A better revival was
provided by Alan Jay Prescott in 2018, named Molto
Fiorito. “It has been produced from More…
A set of floriated caps and numerals produced at Enschedé and released in 1960. [Reichardt] Also cast by Stephenson Blake and introduced in 1958. [Google Books] The shadowed openface is based on a typeface by Molé, a Parisian founder who operated in the first half of the 19th century.
The revival is credited to Sem Hartz. However, according to Johan de Zoete, curator of the Enschedé Museum, it was Pieter Wetselaar who was greatly responsible for completing and cutting the typeface. [Dutch Type]
Mole Foliated (anonymous, 1997, used for the sample) is an unsatisfactory digitization. A better revival was provided by Alan Jay Prescott in 2018, named Molto Fiorito. “It has been produced from the 72-point design and is available as a chromatic font for three-color work. There are also two derivatives: Molto Nero (the Bodoni forms by themselves for setting separately) as well as Molto Ombreggiato, a shadowed version. There is also a font for the leaves only, and all of them are in pin-register for a wide variety of setting and color separation possibilities.” [Type Heritage Project]