A
typeface designed by
Francesco Griffo in 1495 for the publisher
Aldus Manutius. It is still in common use. It was first used in
De Aetna, a work by the great
scholar (and later
cardinal)
Pietro Bembo (1470-1547). The modern face was given the name Bembo by
Monotype in 1929.
It is more compact than Garamond, which it resembles. The ascenders of lower-case letters are slightly high than its capital letters.