• Jan van Krimpen (12 January 1892, in Gouda – 20 October 1958, in Haarlem) was a Dutch typographer, book designer and type designer. He worked for the...
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  • Holland, Netherlands Jan van Krimpen (1892–1958), Dutch typographer and type designer Wim van Krimpen (born 1941), Dutch art dealer Krimpen (card game), an...
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    conventional italic a, e and f. Morison wrote to his friend, type designer Jan van Krimpen, that in developing Perpetua's italic "we did not give enough slope...
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    van der Vossen) Lutetia (1925, Jan van Krimpen) Open Roman Capitals (1929, Jan van Krimpen) Romanée (1928-49, Jan van Krimpen) Romulus (1931, Jan van...
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  • also Lutetia in Latin 21 Lutetia, an asteroid Lutetia, a typeface by Jan van Krimpen Lutetium(III) oxide, a chemical compound A variant of the given name...
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    little-used but also since digitised. During the 1930s Dutch type designer Jan van Krimpen, also a friend of Morison's, worked on a superfamily named Romulus...
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    and P. H. Rädisch at Joh. Enschedé in Haarlem, who cut the types of Jan van Krimpen. Type designer Matthew Carter, who learned punchcutting from Rädisch...
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    Krimpen aan den IJssel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈkrɪmpə(n) aːn dən ˈɛisəl] ) is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South...
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  • (Thesis, TheAntiqua, Corpid, Calibri) Boudewijn Ietswaart (Balduina) Jan van Krimpen (Spectrum, Romanée, Romulus, Haarlemmer, Lutetia, Cancellaresca Bastarda)...
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    standard, NEN 3225. Created by a group of designers that included Jan van Krimpen, the design has no similarity to the DIN standard: it is a humanist...
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  • italic 'a', 'e' and 'f'. Morison wrote to his friend, type designer Jan van Krimpen, that in developing Perpetua's italic "we did not give enough slope...
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    of the work of Hendrik van den Keere, Christoffel van Dijck, Joan Michaël Fleischman, Jacques François Rosart and Jan van Krimpen. Blokland received a doctorate...
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    to typefaces by leading artists of the time including Bruce Rogers, Jan van Krimpen and Berthold Wolpe. Aesthetically, Morison disliked the excessive historicity...
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    the western part of Krimpenerwaard, including the villages of Krimpen aan de Lek, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Lekkerkerk and Ouderkerk aan den IJssel. Most...
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    Nineteenth-century Ornamented Typefaces. Ovink, G. Willem (1973). "Review: Jan van Krimpen, A Letter to Philip Hofer". Quaerendo. 3 (3): 239–242. doi:10.1163/157006973X00237...
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    based on a slightly later font used by Aldus Manutius), Lutetia by Jan van Krimpen (a more personal design, as opposed to a direct revival) and the post-war...
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  • descenders, especially the "chancery italics" of printers such as Arrighi. Jan van Krimpen's Cancelleresca Bastarda typeface, intended to complement his serif...
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    and “modernity”, and with a similarly restrained italic Romulus by Jan van Krimpen, another 1930s book serif typeface with a sloped roman “italic”. (A...
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  • Past Winners Past winners include: Milner Gray FCSD (United Kingdom) Jan van Krimpen (Netherlands) Robin Day FCSD (United Kingdom) Tapio Wirkkala (Finland)...
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    conventional italic was used instead. Morison commented to his friend Jan van Krimpen that "we did not give enough slope to it. When we added more slope...
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  • (cancelled in 1965) Lutetia, this early design of Jan van Krimpen was modified for Monotype. Jan van Krimpen had given his permission to change his design...
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    in 1995 as the catalogue for the exhibition ‘The Aesthetic World of Jan van Krimpen, Book Designer and Typographer’ in the Museum of the Book/Museum...
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    Pittsburgh, PA, 1950, pp. 111-114. Ovink, G. Willem (1973). "Review: Jan van Krimpen, A Letter to Philip Hofer". Quaerendo: 239–242. doi:10.1163/157006973X00237...
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    Nature and Food Quality. Ruissen was elected to the local council of Krimpen aan den IJssel from 2006 until 2019. In the 2019 European Parliament election...
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    & K. Smit was a Dutch shipbuilding company located in Kinderdijk and Krimpen aan de Lek. Its successor is now part of Royal IHC. J. & K. Smit shipyard...
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    Ambacht, Alblasserdam, Krimpen aan den IJssel or Rotterdam. At the Waterbus stop "de Schans" you can also take line 6 to: Krimpen aan de Lek and Kinderdijk...
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    De Lek (redirect from Heer van de Lek)
    19th-century historian Van der Aa, the old Heerlijkheid van de Lek covered the villages of Lekkerkerk, Krimpen aan de Lek, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Ouderkerk...
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    Coster was born. 1977: G.A. van Oorschot 1978: Jan De Slegte 1979: Miep Diekmann 1981: Martin Mooy 1983: Huib van Krimpen and Stichting Drukwerk in de...
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    employer to design a typeface, which was to become Trinité. After Jan van Krimpen died − De Does' predecessor at Enschedé − the production of quality...
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  • for The Kynoch Press, sent a copy to Jan van Krimpen in 1934 (letter from Museum Enschedé: "Carter to Van Krimpen," February 1934). Carter was probably...
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