Banco is an inclined
titling The word titling, in the performing arts (opera, drama, audiovisual productions), defines the work of linguistic mediation encompassing subtitling and surtitling.
History
Subtitling developed starting from 1917, during the silent film era, whereas ...
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands ...
. It was designed by
Roger Excoffon for the
Fonderie Olive foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals ...
in 1951. Excoffon did not design a matching lower case alphabet for the capitals. This font is most famously used as the typeface for
Thrasher Magazine.
See also
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Samples of display typefaces
Display typefaces
Letterpress typefaces
Photocomposition typefaces
Digital typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1951
Typefaces designed by Roger Excoffon
Fonderie Olive typefaces
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