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Folio is a realist sans serif typeface designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum in 1957 for the Bauersche Gießerei (in English: Bauer foundry). Bauer licensed the design to Founderie Typographique Francaise for sale in France under the name Caravelle. Like Helvetica and Univers, which were also released at the same time, it is part of the International Typographic Style and modeled after Akzidenz Grotesk. However, Folio is more closely modeled on Akzidenz Grotesk than the other two, which have

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. is the 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Modern scholars commonly refer to it as the First Folio. Printed in folio format and containing 36 plays (see list of Shakespeare's plays), it was prepared by Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell. It was dedicated to the incomparable pair of brethren William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and his brother Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery (later 4th

The Folio Society is a privately held London based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic books, with new bindings and specially commissioned illustrations. Most come with their own slipcase. Membership of the society was estimated at 140,000 in 2007 and 120,000 in 2011. The Folio Society was founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, Christopher Sandford (of Golden Cockerel Press), and Alan Bott (founder of Pan Books). The

Fiend Folio is the title shared by three products published for successive editions of the fantasy role playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;). All three are collections of monsters, making each Fiend Folio a sequel to that edition's version of the Monster Manual. The first incarnation was unusual, in that the bulk of the material came from the English gaming magazine White Dwarf, rather than being authored by Gary Gygax, the game's creator. Readers and gamers had submitted creatures to the

Folio Corporation was founded in 1987 by Curt Allen and his brother in law Brad Pelo, and quickly gained recognition in helping other companies to publish content on local area networks, and on digital CD ROMs for use on desktop computers. Allen and Pelo were both students at BYU; Allen was in mechanical engineering and Pelo was in public policy. During the 1986 summer break, they began working on a computer program that would index, compress, and continually update text information. Success

Folio is a literary magazine founded in 1984 and based at American University in Washington, D.C. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non fiction twice each year. Folio is also known for interviews with prominent writers, most recently Ann Beattie, Alice Fulton, Leslie Pietrzyk, Gregory Orr, and Adam Haslett. Work that has appeared in Folio was short listed for the Pushcart Prize multiple time in the 1980s. Among the notable stories that first appeared in Folio are Jacob M. Appel's Fata