both are very well drawed, but i like a little more hot metal

The Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, now run my Giovanni Mardersteig's son, Martino, has its own digital version of Dante. This is really splendid, has a range of optical sizes, and is much superior to the Monotype version. Also, it is based on the foundry metal original, not Monotype's hot metal version. It is not available for license.

The Monotype digital version is not a bad font -- it is better than many digital incarnations of metal types and has a reasonably good weight -- but is pales in comparison to the Stamperia Valdonega version.

"Stamperia Valdonega" also sounds way more impressive than "Monotype".

Thank you Alessando!

ChrisL

Yikes! I've never seen the Stamperia Valdonega version in a PDF before, only at text size in print. It's pretty scary when you zoom in on the outlines.

The SV is used only internally at the press.

By chance, I just ended up in this document,
it is set in Dante MT.
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"Europe versus America" is a report by a Swedish public policy institute
comparing the two economies, concluding that "If the European Union were
a state in the USA it would belong to the poorest group of states."
http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf [980 Kb]

defaultValuer. 
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for Political learning, I am very poor in that field.
I just ended up in that document while I was thinking
of Dante typeface, it was funny. I didn`t know what
the Swedish "Timbro" is, but in Italian that word means
stamp, so I attach my timbro.

"With a truckload of salt" is a nice expression;
I like salt, I know you can find salt in the sea
and in the tears, and well, yes, typographers also cries

Today is my birthday so I auto-write my whishes!
Best,

I wrote "thank you Mr. Fredrik Andersson"
in that "defaultValuer", strange.

Buon Compleanno Alessandro!

LOL

John, do you know why the Italian digital cut is not
available for license? And are there samples anywhere
online?

Don't get me started, Alessandro... :-/