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==Palatino clones== As one of the most iconic typefaces of the twentieth century, derivative designs based on Palatino were rapidly developed, taking advantage of the lack of practical copyright and the easy copying possible in the [[phototypesetting]] font market of the 1960s and 70s onwards.<ref name="The Scourge of Arial">{{cite web|last1=Simonson|first1=Mark|author-link=Mark Simonson|title=The Scourge of Arial|url=http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial|website=Mark Simonson Studio Notebook|access-date=19 March 2016|quote=Many type manufacturers in the past have done knock-offs of Helvetica that were indistinguishable or nearly so. For better or worse, in many countries—particularly the U.S.—while typeface names can be protected legally, typeface designs themselves are difficult to protect. So, if you wanted to buy a typesetting machine and wanted the real Helvetica, you had to buy Linotype. If you opted to purchase Compugraphic, AM, or Alphatype typesetting equipment, you couldn’t get Helvetica. Instead you got Triumvirate, or Helios, or Megaron, or Newton, or whatever. Every typesetting manufacturer had its own Helvetica look-alike. It’s quite possible that most of the “Helvetica” seen in the ’70s was actually not Helvetica.}}</ref><ref name="Call It What It Is">{{cite web|last1=Downer|first1=John|author-link=John Downer (signpainter)|title=Call It What It Is|url=http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php?sect=2&id=1|publisher=[[Emigre (type foundry)|Emigre]]|access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref> Many of these are almost indistinguishable from Palatino, and some even had Zapf's involvement as a consultant.<ref name="Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries">{{cite web|last1=Loxley|first1=Simon|title=Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries|url=https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/font-wars-story-on-rivalry-between-type-foundries/|website=Smashing Magazine|date=14 May 2012 |access-date=20 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Simonson|first1=Mark|author-link=Mark Simonson|title=Monotype's Other Arials|url=http://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/monotypes-other-arials|publisher=Mark Simonson Studio|access-date=14 July 2015}}</ref> ===Palazzo Original=== Softmaker's clone of Palatino, Palazzo Original, is unique for being based on the original metal type of Palatino: as a result, it contains many design features not seen in the digital versions of Palatino endorsed by Zapf and most clones. These include a 'p' and 'q' without foot serif and no serif on the centre stroke of the 'E' and 'F', as well as a slightly more delicate design with a lower [[x-height]].<ref name="Devroye More on the Palatino story">{{cite web|last1=Devroye|first1=Luc|author-link=Luc Devroye|title=More on the Palatino story|url=http://luc.devroye.org/palatino2.html|website=Type Design Information Page|access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> It has also been released as Marathon Serial without italics.<ref name="Marathon Serial">{{cite web|title=Marathon Serial|url=https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/softmaker/marathon-serial/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Softmaker|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> ===PostScript clones=== [[Image:CompPal1.svg|thumb|250px|A comparison of Linotype Palatino, Monotype Book Antiqua, and <span lang="de">Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber</span> (URW) Palladio L.]] Most modern Palatino clones are set to match the spacing and design of the PostScript version of Palatino that was a standard font in early digital publishing. In the [[Bitstream Inc.|Bitstream]] font collection, the Palatino equivalent is called "Zapf Calligraphic".<ref name="Zapf Calligraphic 801 MyFonts">{{cite web|title=Zapf Calligraphic 801|url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/zapf-calligraphic-801/|website=MyFonts|publisher=Bitstream|access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> [[URW++]] sells its version as "URW Palladio L". A version of this font was later released by URW under a [[free and open-source]] licence as part of the [[Ghostscript]] project to develop an open-source alternative to PostScript.<ref name="LaTeX font catalogue Palladio">{{cite web|title=URW Palladio|url=http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/urwpalladio/|website=The LaTeX font catalogue|publisher=TeX Users Group Denmark|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> As a result, it (or a derivative) is used by much open-source software such as [[R (software)|R]] as a system font.<ref name="R Cookbook">{{cite web|title=Fonts|url=http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Fonts/|website=R Cookbook|access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="SAS & R">{{cite web|last1=Horton|first1=Nicholas|title=Specifying fonts in graphics|url=http://sas-and-r.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/example-733-specifying-fonts-in.html|website=SAS & R|date=19 April 2010 |access-date=7 April 2016}}</ref> Palladio, however, lacks the subtle stroke modulation and rounded corners which can be found for example in Palatino Linotype. ====Book Antiqua==== One of the best-known Palatino PostScript clones is "Book Antiqua" (originally by [[Monotype Corporation|Monotype]]), distributed with much [[Microsoft]] software, beginning with [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref>Zapf, Hermann. ''Alphabet Stories: a chronicle of technical development.'' Linotype: 2007.</ref> It is one of many clone PostScript typefaces distributed by Microsoft and Monotype around this time, including [[Arial]] (similar to [[Helvetica]]), [[Century Gothic]] (ITC Avant Garde) and Bookman Old Style ([[Bookman (typeface)|ITC Bookman]]).<ref name="The Scourge of Arial" /><ref name="Hudson comments" /> Book Antiqua resembles Palatino extremely closely and is almost indistinguishable from the original apart from a few detail differences. ("[[Antiqua (typeface class)|Antiqua]]" is another word for the "[[Roman type|Roman]]" style of typefaces that Palatino is based on, as opposed to [[blackletter]]. The genre, inspired by Italian traditions of handwriting and calligraphy, has been a dominant influence on most typefaces and lettering created in the Western world since the Renaissance.<ref name="Eisenstein2005">{{cite book|first=Elizabeth|last=Eisenstein|author-link=Elizabeth Eisenstein|title=The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe|url=https://archive.org/details/printingrevoluti00eise_0|url-access=registration|date=12 September 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-84543-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/printingrevoluti00eise_0/page/123 123]–163}}</ref>) In 1993, Zapf resigned from l'Association Typographique Internationale ([[ATypI]]) over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members (namely [[Monotype Imaging|Monotype]]). In the United States, the abstract design of a typeface is not protected by copyright, and can be imitated freely (unless the typeface is protected by a design patent, which is of much more limited duration and rarely applied for). Copyright protection is available for the representation of a typeface in software (a computer font), and the names of typefaces can be protected by trademark. Microsoft has since licensed and distributes Linotype's version of Zapf's original design called ''Palatino Linotype'' in all versions of [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] since [[Windows 2000]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1937|title=Palatino Linotype – Version 5.01|publisher=Microsoft}}</ref> During the Palatino Linotype development process, Zapf and Linotype requested that Microsoft cease to include Book Antiqua with Office, but Microsoft concluded that this was impossible as too many documents had already been created using it.<ref name="Hudson comments">{{cite web|last1=Hudson |first1=John |title=Comments on Typophile Thread |url=http://typophile.com/node/97065 |website=Typophile|access-date=27 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150124093638/http://typophile.com/node/97065 |archive-date=January 24, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Palatino FAQ Devroye">{{cite web|last1=Devroye|first1=Luc|author-link=Luc Devroye|title=Palatino FAQ|url=http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-25034.html|website=Type Design Information Page|access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> A custom version of Book Antiqua was created by Monotype as a corporate font for the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] of the UK.<ref name="Book Antiqua Parliamentary">{{cite web|last1=Castle|first1=Bob|last2=Carpenter|first2=Victoria|title=Book Antiqua Parliamentary (Freedom of Information request)|url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/book_antiqua_parliamentary_4|website=[[Whatdotheyknow.com]]|date=6 September 2010 |access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref> ===Free and open-source versions and derivatives=== The first legal free version of Palatino was '''URW Palladio L.''' The [[open-source-software movement|open-source community]] greatly extended the character sets of the fonts and releases new, updated versions under new names. *'''FPL Neu''' is a typeface based on ''URW Palladio L'' font. It has both [[text figures]] and lining figures. It is available both in [[Type 1 font|Type 1]] format<ref>{{citation |url=http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/|title=Index of /~was/x/FPL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425021223/http://home.vr-web.de/was/x/FPL/|access-date=2015-01-28|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-25}}</ref> and [[OpenType]] format.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/rstub/fplneu|title=FPL Neu fonts — OpenType edition|website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref> *'''TeX Gyre Pagella''' is another similar typeface based on the ''URW Palladio L'' font. Pagella includes accents for European languages as well as glyphs for a few non-European languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/pagella|title=TeX Gyre Pagella|access-date=2010-07-12|archive-date=2010-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728140016/http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/pagella|url-status=dead}}</ref> This typeface is released in formats compatible with [[LaTeX]] as well as with modern [[OpenType]] compatible systems. It is a part of the [[TeX Gyre]] project to make updated, expanded, OpenType versions of URW's open-source fonts. *'''Domitian''' is a typeface based on ''URW Palladio L'' font released recently in 2020. It was meant to be a drop in of Adobe Palatino, and extends more characters on top of Palladio.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The LaTeX Font Catalogue – Domitian|url=https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/domitian/|access-date=2021-01-07|website=tug.org}} [https://github.com/dbenjaminmiller/domitian Source Code]</ref> '''[[Asana-Math|Asana Math]]''' is an [[OpenType mathematical font]] designed to look like Palatino (so that math can visually match the text). It is based on the Type 1 ''pxfonts'' by Young Ryu.
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