Alessandro Butti

Visual Artist

1893 – 1959

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Who was Alessandro Butti?

Alessandro Butti 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 deah, his collaborator on that face, Aldo Novarese, added a lower case which was then called Eurostile.

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Born
1893
Italy
Nationality
  • Italy
Lived in
  • Italy
Died
1959
Turin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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