Zilvertype
Zilvertype is a serif typeface published by Canada Type, designed by Hans van Maanen. 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, 40 of them serif.
From the foundry
Zilvertype R ight on the heels of the tremendous popularity wave that made Hollandse Mediaeval the most used Dutch typeface during the Great War years, Sjoerd H. de Roos was asked to design a 15 point type for De Zilverdistel, Jean François van Royen’s publishing company. So between 1914 and 1916, de Roos and van Royen collaborated on the typeface eventually known as Zilvertype, and which both parties viewed as an improved version of Hollandse Mediaeveal. Like Hollandse Mediaeval, Zilvertype was
Published by Canada Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Book, Bold