- 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...
-
instance resembling what
would now be
considered blackletter.
Printers and
typefounders such as
Nicolas Jenson and
Aldus Manutius in
Venice and
later Robert...
- handwriting,
something imitated in
almost all type
designs since.
French typefounders of the 16th
century ****iduously
examined Manutius's work (and, it is...
-
style of
Latin alphabet, Caslon's
first typefaces were what
contemporary typefounders called "exotics". His
first design was an
Arabic made at the English...
-
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...
- Millington, Roy (2002).
Stephenson Blake: the last of the Old
English typefounders (1st ed.). New Castle, Del. [u.a.]: Oak
Knoll Press [u.a.] pp. 104, 228...
- were
often called "Egyptians" as an
exoticism by nineteenth-century
typefounders.
Memphis and
other similar designs were po****r in
printing during the...
-
which cast and sold
metal type. It was
founded by the
punchcutter and
typefounder William Caslon I,
probably in 1720. For most of its
history it was based...
-
Thereafter sans-serif
capitals rapidly began to be
issued from
London typefounders. Much
imitated was the
Thorowgood "grotesque" face of the
early 1830s...
