Aurora is a

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, designed by

Jackson Burke Jackson Burke (1908 in San Francisco, California – 1975) was an American type and book designer. After studying at the University of California, Berkeley, he succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler Linotyp ...

(the successor to

Chauncey H. Griffith Chauncey H. Griffith (1879–1956) was an American printer and typeface designer. Griffith was born in a small town near Ironton, Ohio, and began his career as a compositor and pressman in Lexington, Kentucky, where his family moved when he was ...

at Mergenthaler Linotype) in 1960. The font is a darker derivative of the

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typeface, initially designed for the

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. The News 706 typeface by

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is almost identical to Aurora.

References

*Macmillan, Neil. ''An A-Z of Type Designers.'' Yale University Press.: 2006. ,

External links

Font Designer - Jackson Burke
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