- Vox-ATypI
classification system. It
amalgamates the
surnames of the
famous typefounders Firmin Didot and
Giambattista Bodoni,
whose efforts defined the style...
- by most
other typefounders Slab-serif in
second style, 1834 specimen, 'O' has
normal stress. In 1828
Figgins became the
second typefounder to sell a face...
-
style of
Latin alphabet, Caslon's
first typefaces were what
contemporary typefounders called "exotics." His
first design was an
Arabic made at the English...
- handwriting,
something imitated in
almost all type
designs since.
French typefounders of the 16th
century ****iduously
examined Manutius's work (and, it is...
-
instance resembling what
would now be
considered blackletter.
Printers and
typefounders such as
Nicolas Jenson and
Aldus Manutius in
Venice and
later Robert...
- and
typography by
Edmund Fry, one of the most
learned of the
English typefounders of his day. Fry
provided a
description of each
alphabet on the right-handed...
-
Thereafter sans-serif
capitals rapidly began to be
issued from
London typefounders. Much
imitated was the
Thorowgood "grotesque" face of the
early 1830s...
-
first appeared.
Through his family's business, Reed
became a
prominent typefounder, and
wrote a
standard work on the subject:
History of the Old English...
-
connection is
today regarded as a mere legend. The 19th-century
printer and
typefounder Fournier Le
Jeune suggested that
Gutenberg was not
using type cast with...
-
originally released in 1896. This was one of many
modern faces issued by
typefounders and
Monotype around this period, and the
standard style for body text...
