Ionic No. 5
| Category | Serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Slab-serif |
| Designer(s) | Chauncey H. Griffith |
| Foundry | Linotype |
| Date released | 1925 |
| Design based on | Monotype Ionic |
Ionic No. 5 is a slab-serif typeface designed by Chauncey H. Griffith and presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1925. It is one of five typefaces in Griffith's 'Legibility Group' which contains typefaces especially suited to newsprint including Corona, Excelsior, Opticon, Paragon, and Textype. Griffith took Lanston’s sturdy 6 point Monotype Ionic 156-J as a starting point for Ionic No. 5, and in five trials produced the first contemporary typeface designed specifically to solve the technical problems posed by stereotyping and high speed printing of newspaper text.
The News 701 typeface by BitStream is almost identical to Ionic No. 5.
References
- Consuegra, David. American Type Design & Designers. Allworth Communications, Inc.: 2004. ISBN 978-1-58115-320-0
- Hutt, Allen. Changing Newspaper: Typographic Trends in Britain and America 1622-1972. Gordon Fraser.: 1973. ISBN 978-0-900406-22-5
- Macmillan, Neil. An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press.: 2006. ISBN 978-0-300-11151-4
- Miklavčič, Mitja (2006). Three Chapters in the Development of Clarendon/Ionic Typefaces (PDF) (M.A. Typography thesis). University of Reading. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 25, 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
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