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George Auriol has been called the "quintessential Art Nouveau designer" according to Steven Heller and Louise Fili. [1] The letterforms he designed for his namesake typeface originated in Française-légère and Française-allongée, two other fonts he designed for G. Peignot et Fils.
George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863, Beauvais – February 1938, Paris), was a French poet, songwriter, graphic designer, type designer, and Art Nouveau artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the covers of magazines, books, and sheet music, as well as other types of work such as monograms and trademarks.
The logo of White Dwarf magazine from the late 1970s to the early 1980s used the font. The splash screen of the video game, Pharaoh's Tomb used the font. The band Dinosaur Jr. has used the font on various album covers. Early "Ram's Head" versions of the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff used the font.
ITC Benguiat Gothic is a sans-serif variant for the original serif font family. Both faces are loosely based upon typefaces of the Art Nouveau period but are not considered academic revivals. The face follows ITC's design formulary of an extremely high x-height, combined with multiple widths and weights.
Articles relating to Art Nouveau, an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914.
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GNU FreeFont (also known as Free UCS Outline Fonts) is a family of free OpenType, TrueType and WOFF vector fonts, implementing as much of the Universal Character Set (UCS) as possible, aside from the very large CJK Asian character set. The project was initiated in 2002 by Primož Peterlin and is now maintained by Steve White.