Garnier-Flammarion 153: Anthologie poétique française, Vol. 1 & 2
Contributed by Stephen Coles
on Jun 29th, 2015. Artwork published in
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André Mary – Anthologie poétique française – Moyen âge 1
Garnier-Flammarion 153, 1967
Couverture: Renart le goupil et Tibert le chat
Miniature extraite d’un manuscrit du Roman de Renart,
Paris, B.N., Ms. fr. 1580, folio 93
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7 Comments on “Garnier-Flammarion 153: Anthologie poétique française, Vol. 1 & 2”
I spent a few hours looking for details on the Turino, and I think these examples are more likely using Industrial 736. Torino CG (closer to the original Nebiolo?) has several differences with the Bitstream or URW versions: the numbers, the flat t, the q which only has a serif on the right, the loops of the g and the Q … which intrigued me a lot (more similar with ITC Fashion). The Turino Open has the same characteristics, undoubtedly linked to the later design.
Industrial 736 is Bitstream’s digitization of Torino. I don’t know when exactly it was made (my copy mentions “Copyright 1990–1993 Bitstream Inc.”), but it definitely wasn’t around in 1967, when these books were published.
It seems likely that the specific font used for these covers is a phototype version available in France in 1967. The 1974 catalog by Hollenstein lists Torino with Torino Italique. I can check with my more extensive catalog next week to see if it is a match for the mentioned details.
Update: it’s not. The version shown by Hollenstein has shorter descenders and is also different in other details like the top of t. It appears to be the same as shown by VGC.
The phototype version shown by Berthold in their E1 specimen from 1974 looks like a match.
I finally found the reference for the Torino Cg mentioned above: Torino Std Bold, published by ITC and which MyFonts attributes to Alessandro Butti…
www.myfonts.com/products/at…
It contains the characteristics Q and q, the flat t, and that very “potbellied” g loop.
This old PS1 font had me going around for a long time!
Thanks, Martier. Now I see what you mean.
I gave this version a dedicated page, see Torino (Compugraphic). I don’t think it’s closer to Nebiolo’s original, compare to this 1959 specimen.
As you say, it was once available as Cg Torino from Compugraphic (and later as AT Torino from Agfa), in two widths. As of 2025, it’s sold by Monotype under the ITC label. But to my knowledge, there was no pre-digital ITC Torino.
It’s true that some sources credit the design (of Torino in general) to Alessandro Butti, but that seems to be an error, or refers to a revision/extension only, given he was born in 1893, and Torino was first released in 1908.
Hello Florian,
yes, regarding the reference to Alessandro Butti found on MyFonts, I had previously read what Fonts In Use had to say about the Torino, which is why I put a ellipsis.
But the link you added to this 1959 specimen, arrrh! How do you do that?!
Thanks for introducing this CG version, which finally regains its legitimacy.
(PS. I knew Compu photocomposition equipment, before the Macintosh, so it’s a bit emotional.)