Alessandro Butti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian type designer
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Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
About Alessandro Butti
- Alessandro Butti (b.
- 1893 – d.
- 1959 in Turin) was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin where he was art director of the Nebiolo type foundry.
- He also taught at the Scuola Vigliani-Paravia.
- Microgramma is his most famous face.
- After Butti's death, his collaborator on that face, Aldo Novarese, added a lower case which was then called Eurostile.
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