type 3: CENTAUR!!!!

(http://www.fontyukle.com/en/CENTAUR.ttf)

A refinement of Roman inscriptional capitals designed by Bruce Rogers as a titling design for signage in the Metropolitan Museum. Rogers later designed for the Monotype Corporation a lowercase based on Jenson’s work, turning the titling into a full typeface, Centaur, the most elegant and Aldine of the Jenson derivatives.

Designers: Nicolas Jenson, Bruce Rogers, Frederic Warde
Design date: 1928-1930
Design owner: Monotype Imaging
Publisher: Monotype Imaging
MyFonts debut: Jan 1, 2000
(http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/centaur/)

Centaur was later issued in several other sizes and used exclusively for the New York Metropolitan Museum Press. Soon, fine printers made so many requests for the Centaur types that Rogers considered developing a commercial version of the face.
The most famous use for the type, however, came six years later when a special 22-point size was cast to set the 1,238-page Oxford Lecturn Bible.
(http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/hiddengems/centaur.htm)



Centaur™ was designed by Bruce Rogers for the Metropolitan Museum in 1914 for titles. Subsequently, it was reworked into a text face. Centaur is what is known as a Venetian face, characterized by oblique stress, minimal contrast between thick and thin strokes, the slanted bar in the e, and heavy serifs. It has a unique charm and distinctive elegance that works well on a variety of correspondence and publications.
(http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/centaur-family-(5-fonts).aspx)

The completed fonts were cast in 14 point by The American Type Founders Company and were first used to set a translation of De Guerin’s Le Centaure. Following typographic tradition, Rogers named his typeface after the book in which it first appeared.