What is "microgramma"

Microgramma is a sans serif font which was designed by Aldo Novarese and Alessandro Butti for the Nebiolo Type Foundry in 1952. It became popular for use with technical illustrations in the 1960s and was a favourite of graphic designers by the early seventies, its uses ranging from publicity and publication design to packaging, largely because of its availability as a Letraset typeface. Early typesetters (like the AM Varityper) also incorporated it.

The typeface is almost always used in its extended and bold extended forms (pictured). Initially, it only had upper-case letters. Later versions, by Linotype and URW/ Nebiolo, contain lower case letters, accented Latin characters, mathematical symbols, and Latin ligatures. In the URW/Nebiolo version, there are also extended Latin, subscripts and superscripts, extended Latin ligatures.

Novarese himself later developed Eurostile in 1962, a typeface very similar to Microgramma. Eurostile added lower-case letters, a bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact.

Microgramma may refer to:

• Microgramma (plant), a genus of ferns in the Polypodiaceae family
• Microgramma (typeface)

Microgramma, the snakeferns, is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae. Most species in the genus are restricted to Central and South America.

It contains the following species (this list may be incomplete):

• Microgramma bifrons
• Microgramma dictyophylla
• Microgramma heterophylla
• Microgramma latevagans
• Microgramma lycopodioides
• Microgramma megalophylla
• Microgramma mauritiana
• Microgramma microsoroides
• Microgramma nitida
• Microgramma percussa
• Microgramma persicariifolia
• Microgramma squamulosa
• Microgramma tecta
• Microgramma tuberosa
• Microgramma vacciniifolia