all with italics based on Electra Cursive. Aluminia (2017), digitized from Dwiggins's original design drawings, with italics in both the original oblique roman and the later cursive. There is no boldface, mirroring the initial metal version. It was created expressly for the Letterform Archive for use in the retrospective W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design, and an in-progress version containing just the basic character set necessary for setting the book has been distributed to crowdfunding backers. However, there are plans for a limited commercial release once it is complete. Poets Electra is a custom digitization drawn by Christian Schwartz and Miguel Reyes of Commercial Type for the Academy of American Poets. They chose to work from the 8-point metal type of Electra in response to the project's requirement of a font to be used on the World Wide Web, the accommodations in physical type for very small print sizes being similar to those in digital fonts for text sizes on screen. A slightly heavier version, Poets Electra No. 2, was also produced for use in the academy's official printed matter. Cyrus Highsmith has designed several newsfaces inspired by Dwiggins's work. Of these, Prensa (1999, for La Prensa Gráfica of El Salvador) is the most directly influenced by Electra. It features a particularly restrained italic reminiscent of Electra's original oblique, using cursive letterforms that nevertheless hew more closely to the roman than to handwriting. See also Joanna by Eric Gill, a design contemporaneous to Electra, born of the same impulse to create a book typeface balancing “humanity” and “modernity”, and with a similarly restrained italic Romulus by Jan van Krimpen, another 1930s book serif typeface with a sloped roman “italic”. (A separate chancery italic, Cancelleresca Bastarda, is a part of the same series, but its much longer ascenders and descenders prevented it from being used as a companion italic.) References External links Fonts in Use Illustrations from Emblems and Electra, a brochure to publicise Electra. The drawings were originally created for The Saturday Review of Literature but republished in the specimen to give a sense of Dwiggins' work. The Evolution of Electra - presentation by Paul Shaw at ATypI 2017 Linotype typefaces Transitional serif typefaces Typefaces with text figures Typefaces designed by William Addison Dwiggins