- The
angle of the side of the
punch was
particularly significant. The
punchcutter begins by
transferring the
outline of a
letter design to one end of a...
-
influential typeface cut for
Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his
punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495, and are in what is now
called the old-style...
-
extremely precise French punchcutter particularly renowned for his
skill in
cutting italics.
Vervliet comments that
among punchcutters in
France "the main...
- 1757 by John
Baskerville in Birmingham, England, and cut into
metal by
punchcutter John Handy.
Baskerville is
classified as a
transitional typeface, intended...
-
Richard Austin (1756–1832) was an
English punchcutter. He was the
original cutter of the
typefaces now
known as Bell,
Scotch Roman, and Porson. Born in...
- of the
French name Guillaume,
apparently after the
French printer and
punchcutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598),
though he did not
invent the symbols: they...
-
Hendrik van den
Keere (c. 1540/2 – 1580) was a
punchcutter, or
cutter of
punches to make
metal type, who
lived in
Ghent in
modern Belgium. Van den Keere...
-
Michael Fleischmann), was an 18th-century German-Dutch
typographer and
punchcutter.
Fleischman worked in the
Baroque period of
design and his
roman typefaces...
- – 20
December 1658) was a
French Protestant printer, type designer,
punchcutter and
typefounder active in
Sedan in the
seventeenth century. He was a...
-
named after the designer.
Garamond was one of the
first independent punchcutters,
specialising in type
design and punch-cutting as a
service to others...
