- 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...
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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...
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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...
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extremely precise French punchcutter particularly renowned for his
skill in
cutting italics.
Vervliet comments that
among punchcutters in
France "the main...
- (1450–1518), also
called Francesco da Bologna, was a fifteenth-century
Italian punchcutter. He
worked for
Aldus Manutius,
designing the printer's more important...
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Edward Philip Prince (1846–1923) was a
British engraver and
punchcutter, a
cutter of the
punches used to
stamp the
matrices used to cast
metal type. Working...
- 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...
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Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into
metal by
punchcutter John Handy.
Baskerville is
classified as a
transitional typeface, intended...
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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...
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shown in
Albanesische Studien by
Johann Georg von Hahn in 1854. The
alphabet was cut into type by the
Austrian punchcutter Alois Auer as
early as 1851....
