字体介绍

Volta是20世纪50年代的一种健壮的字体。Bauer字体铸造厂的设计师Walter Baum和Konrad Bauer在1955年设计了这种字体家族，重新审视了世纪之交的时尚风格。Volta的字母的形式类似于那些在New Transitional Serifs字体，如Cheltenham和Century。New Transitional Serifs是根据Didone（即Bodoni）样式字体开发的，更能体现19世纪晚期的时代精神，而且是对新技术的版式调整。早在大规模生产时期，20世纪初的印刷工人就不得不使用更便宜的材料来印刷。New Transitional Serifs健壮的字形是为了弥补这一点而设计的，但它们本身也是一些巧妙的小发明。

从一开始，New Transitional Serifs字体就被广告客户采用。它们的健壮性也使它们几乎可以用于所有大小。Volta的设计特别考虑了广告展示的使用。Volta字母的x高度比衬线字体平均值高。建议Volta只用于12点以上的较短文本。Volta字体有四种不同的字体样式: Regular，Medium，Medium Italic和Bold。

Volta is a robust typeface from the 1950s. A revisit to styles that were en vogue at the turn of the century, Bauer type foundry designers Walter Baum and Konrad Bauer designed this type family in1955. The form of Volta's letters are similar to those in New Transitional Serif typefaces, like Cheltenham and Century . Developed after the Didone (i.e., Bodoni) style types, New Transitional Serifs speak more to the zeitgeist of the late 19th Cntury, and were typographic adaptations to it's newer technologies. Already in the period of mass production, typographers and printers at the dawn of the 20th Century had to cope with larger print runs on cheaper materials. The robust letterforms of New Transitional Serifs were designed to compensate for this, but they were also ingenious little inventions in their own right.

Form the beginning, the new, peculiar forms of New Transitional Serif letters were adopted for use by advertisers. Their robustness also allowed them to be used in virtually all sizes. Volta was designed especially with advertising display usage in mind. The x-height of Volta's letters is higher than average for serif faces. It is recommended that Volta be used exclusively for shorter tracks of text, above 12 point. Headlines look dashing set in Volta. Four different font styles are available for the Volta typeface: Regular, Medium, Medium Italic, and Bold."