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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Didot Roger Excoffon Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond (Garamond) Robert Granjon Hector Guimard Nicolas Jenson Christophe Plantin Jean-François Porchez...
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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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    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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    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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    Renaissance and early modern punchcutters such as Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon and Miklós Tótfalusi Kis, although a 1927 revival was published supervised...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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