Alfred Fairbank

Alfred Fairbank CBE (1895-1982) was a British calligrapher and author on handwriting.[1][2]

Influenced by Edward Johnston, Fairbank was a founding member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators in 1921, and became Chairman.[3] He was involved in the foundation of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952; his work and 1932 textbook A Handwriting Manual were influential on the italic script handwriting taught in British schools.[4][5] His portrait was painted by Anna Hornby.[6][7] For Penguin Books he wrote A Book of Scripts, on writing systems used throughout the world.[8] Fairbanks was a civil servant who spent his professional career working at the Admiralty in London; he retired to Hove on the south coast and lectured at what is now the University of Brighton after his retirement.[9][10][11][12]

Fairbank also designed one upright italic typeface for Monotype.[13] It was named "Bembo Condensed Italic", as part of their Bembo family, a name which irritated Fairbank who thought it should have been kept as an independent design.[14] It was digitised in 2004 as "Fairbank".[15][16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "Alfred Fairbank" (PDF). Klingspor Museum. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Obituary". New York Times. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Former Chairmen". The Society of Scribes and Illuminators. Retrieved 14 May 2016. At the instance of Stanley Morison, he [Fairbank] designed in 1928 the elegant compact typeface known as Narrow Bembo, a title he detested.
  4. ↑ "Society for Italic Handwriting - History". Society for Italic Handwriting. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Sassoon, Rosemary (2007). Handwriting of the Twentieth Century. Intellect Books. pp. 71–5. ISBN 978-1-84150-178-9.
  6. ↑ "Papers of Anna Hornby - Held at: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford". Archives Hub. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  7. ↑ Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970, Vol IV (EP Publishing LTD, 1979)
  8. ↑ A Book of Scripts. Penguin Books. 1949.
  9. ↑ "Alfred Fairbank". Arts and Humanities department. University of Brighton. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  10. ↑ "Alfred Fairbank (1895-1982)". VADS. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Calligraphy and Palaeography: Essays Presented to Alfred Fairbank on His 70th Birthday. A. S. Osley (review)". The Library Quarterly. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  12. ↑ Classical Mediaeval and Reinassance Studies in honor of Berthold Louis Ullman. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. pp. 255–257. GGKEY:5CR8RLSTFAY.
  13. ↑ "Alfred Fairbank". MyFonts. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  14. ↑ Osley, A.S. (1965). Calligraphy and paleography: essays presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70th birthday. Faber & Faber. p. 18. His only contribution to type design has been the so-called Narrow Bembo Italic ... it was conceived as an italic type to be used entirely in its own right and not in any way related to Monotype Bembo, which Fairbank had not seen.
  15. ↑ "Fairbank". Monotype. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  16. ↑ "Fairbank". MyFonts. Monotype.
  17. ↑ "Fairbanks Italic specimen" (PDF). Monotype. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

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