Columba

Weights

6

Styles

22

Available

Variable

Stylistic Sets

2

Minikin

↑ Columba Ruby Regular

Gem

↑ Columba Ruby Medium

Pearl

↑ Columba Ruby Semibold

Nonpareil

↑ Columba Ruby Bold

Minion

↑ Columba Ruby Ultra

Bourgeois

↑ Columba Text Regular

Small Pica

↑ Columba Text Medium

English

↑ Columba Text Semibold

Greater Primer

↑ Columba Text Bold

Double Small Pica

↑ Columba Text Ultra

Double English

↑ Columba Banner Headline

Brilliant

↑ Columba Ruby Italic

Diamond

↑ Columba Ruby Medium italic

Ruby

↑ Columba Ruby Semibold Italic

Emerald

↑ Columba Ruby Bold Italic

Brevier

↑ Columba Ruby Ultra Italic

Long Primer

↑ Columba Text Italic

Pica

↑ Columba Text Medium Italic

Columbian Exchange

↑ Columba Text Semibold Italic

Paragon

↑ Columba Text Bold Italic

Double Pica

↑ Columba Text Ultra Italic

Five-line Nonpareil

↑ Columba Banner Headline

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Cicero, Pica,
Ruby, Long Primer,
Fournier

Didot's Point System

¶ Both in Didot’s and fournier’s systems, some point sizes have have traditional names such as Cicero (before the introduction of point systems, type sizes were called by names such as cicero, pica, ruby, long primer, etc.).

System: Typographic
*(Length, Unit of )*
First Utilised ~1486, Italy
¶ Epistulae ad Familiares
{Publication}

Pannartz

& Sweynheim

§ 1 point = 1/6 Ligne = 1/72
French Royal Inch
=15 625/41 559 MM*

* However in practice,
mostly 0.376 000 MM, i.e. +0.0076%

500/13