ITC Legacy Family

The genesis of ITC Legacy actually began in the early 1960s when Ronald Arnholm was a graduate student at Yale University. In a type history class, he was able to study firsthand a copy of the 1470 Eusebius, set in the roman type of Nicolas Jenson. With this inspiration, Arnholm created a revival design of Jenson's work, called Jenson Roman, which became part of the Linotype type library. In 1982 Arnholm decided that his first Jenson design had not captured all the qualities of the original, and that it need a companion italic-eventually based on the work of Claude Garamond-to complete the family. He went back to the 1470 Eusebius, and the final result is seen here as ITC Legacy. While working on the Jenson type Arnholm became intrigued with the concept of a companion series of sans serif faces having the essential skeletal structure of the oldstyle serif types in his revival. Although both are based on the same design model, ITC Legacy Serif would be classified as an exceptionally sensitive interpretation of an earlier style, while ITC Legacy Sans could only be called an original design statement. Both ITC Legacy Serif and ITC Legacy Sans are available in book, medium, bold and ultra weights with corresponding italic fonts for all but the ultra.