Robert Granjon (Paris, c. 1513 - Rome, 1590) was a French punchcutter, a designer and creator of metal type, and printer. He worked in Paris, Lyon, Antwerp...
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version was from Robert Granjon. Because several other Garamonds were on the market in the 1920s, Jones decided to name his type Granjon. Jones, a master...
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Garamond (section Robert Granjon)
pair these with italics based on those created by his contemporary Robert Granjon, who was well known for his proficiency in this genre. However, although...
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History of Western typography (section Robert Granjon)
1592 are generally accepted as Claude Garamond's final roman types. Robert Granjon worked in the second half of the 16th century, mainly at Lyon, but was...
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on the sixteenth-century type of Robert Granjon. According to Alexander Lawson, "The name Galliard stems from Granjon's own term for an 8-point font he...
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civilité) is a typeface introduced in 1557 by the French punchcutter Robert Granjon. These characters imitate French cursiva letters of the Renaissance...
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italics are based on types designed by a contemporary of Garamond's, Robert Granjon. It is effectively a Garamond revival, though a different name was chosen...
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loosely based on a Gros Cicero roman type cut in the 16th century by Robert Granjon held in the collection of the Plantin–Moretus Museum, Antwerp. The intention...
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them. Many engravers were active over this time, including Garamond, Robert Granjon, Guillaume Le Bé, Antoine Augereau, Simon de Colines, Pierre Haultin...
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Tale John Wycliffe's handwritten Bible, late 14th century Fleuron by Robert Granjon, who pioneered the style, printed 1567 The arabesque title page of a...
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Claude Garamond himself but on designs by his younger contemporary Robert Granjon. The original Caslon italic had swashes only on the letters JQTY; others...
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and the matching Italic, Greek and Cyrillic characters designed by Robert Granjon. Its name is a shortening of Egenolff–Berner Garamond which refers to...
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The name "Petit Canon de Garamond is a mistake; it is actually by Robert Granjon. Definition of x-height at typophile.com In the search of ideal line-height...
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metal type created in the late sixteenth century by the French artisan Robert Granjon and preserved in the collection of the Plantin-Moretus Museum of Antwerp...
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Didot Roger Excoffon Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond (Garamond) Robert Granjon Hector Guimard Nicolas Jenson Christophe Plantin Jean-François Porchez...
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previously practiced as a goldsmith. Among the most famous punchcutters, Robert Granjon began as the apprentice to a jeweller, although Claude Garamond wrote...
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Ferdinando organised an expedition in 1608 under the command of Captain Robert Thornton to northern Brazil and the Amazon River in order to create a colony...
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the type can be reused in many different editions of different works. Robert Granjon, a French printer of the sixteenth century, has been credited with the...
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the most popular imitations were those made by Pierre Haultin and Robert Granjon, which were also widely used abroad. More obscure versions in France...
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eastern Christian communities. Between 1580 and 1586, type designer Robert Granjon designed Arabic typefaces for Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, and the...
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influential in the switch to sloped capitals as a general practice was Robert Granjon, a prolific and extremely precise French punchcutter particularly renowned...
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directories and to celebrate its anniversary. Based on the work of Robert Granjon, a 16th century French engraver, Carter created the sharp, high-contrast...
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sixteenth century in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and the work of Robert Granjon. In 2013, Ton Croiset van Uchelen wrote that he "is now generally recognised...
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French typefaces which had been created by Garamond, Pierre Haultin and Robert Granjon under its influence. UCLA curators, who maintain a large collection...
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van Krimpen) Civilité (1584, Plantin), based on the 1557 design of Robert Granjon. Didot Floriated Capitals (1820, Pierre Didot) Emergo (1948-53, S.L...
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works some of the materials used by French type designer and printer Robert Granjon Belgium portal List of museums in Belgium Renaissance humanism in Northern...
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Roman, any more than his Galliard was a facsimile of any one type by Robert Granjon. What it has done is to capture the good color, and the generous breadth...
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received from the Pope a monopoly to print books in "foreign languages". Robert Granjon of Paris (who also worked for the Typographia Vaticana) was employed...
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Plantin's surviving materials and other types including the type by Robert Granjon that Times New Roman is loosely based on. Both Tracy and Barker endorsed...
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capitals and terminal forms, although smaller numbers than were common in Robert Granjon's italics. Van Dijck worked in a style later described by Pierre Simon...
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