Basilio
Basilio is a serif typeface published by Canada Type in 1940, designed by Hans van Maanen and Stefan Schlesinger. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 40 of them serif.
From the foundry
Basilio I n the late 1930s, old Egyptiennes (or Italiennes) returned to the collective consciousness of European printers and type houses — perhaps because political news were front and center — especially in France where the Le Figaro newspaper was seeing record circulation numbers. In 1939 both Monotype and Lettergieterij Amsterdam thought of the same idea: Make a new typeface similar to the reverse stress slab shapes that make up the titles of newspapers like Le Figaro and Le Frondeur. Both f
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Heavy
- Released
- 1940