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Poetica

Poetica is a calligraphic, ornamental typeface designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe Systems in 1992.

About Poetica

Poetica is a calligraphic, ornamental typeface designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe Systems in 1992. As one of the first of the Adobe Originals family of typefaces including a swash version, it attained a wide usage in digital typography. Regarded as the first family of italic type in digital form, it is available in 21 weights to cater numerous design ideas in a single typeface family. Poetica features a variety of different ampersand characters.

From the Wikipedia article “Poetica (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Poetica in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

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