Mauritius
Mauritius is a sans-serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Georg Trump and Patrick Griffin. It comes in 2 weights, from Book to Bold, with italics. It is one of 176 typefaces from Canada Type in the Type.lol catalog, 84 of them sans-serif.
From the foundry
Mauritius A bout ten years after his unique treatment of the Garalde design with Trump Mediaeval, Georg Trump took on the transitional genre with Mauritius, which was to be his last typeface. He started working on it in 1965. The Stuttgart-based Weber foundry published a pamphlet previewing it under the name Barock-Antiqua in 1967, then announced the availability of the metal types (a roman, a bold and an italic) a year later. The global printing industry was already in third gear with cold type
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- sans
- Weights
- Book, Bold