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George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863, Beauvais – February 1938, Paris), was a French poet, songwriter, graphic designer, type designer, and Art Nouveau artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the covers of magazines, books, and sheet music, as well as other types of work such as monograms and trademarks.
Fournier's company remained open until the 19th century. Interest in type design was stimulated in 1922 by D. B. Updike's Printing Types.This led to the newly appointed advisor to the Monotype Corporation, Stanley Morison, initiating a program of recutting past faces.
William Caslon I (1692/93 – 23 January 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder, [1] was an English typefounder.The distinction and legibility of his type secured him the patronage of the leading printers of the day in England and on the continent.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 December 2024. Art of arranging type "Typographer" redirects here. For the typewriter, see Typographer (typewriter). Not to be confused with Type design, Topography, Typology, or Topology. A specimen sheet of the Trajan typeface, which is based on the letter forms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman ...
Furthermore, the influence of art nouveau was expressed in a lot of book illustrations and ex libris designs. Altogether the return to the roots of book art become stronger around the start of the 20th century. It was initiated by British typographer, socialist, and private press publisher William Morris as well as by the Arts and Crafts ...
Nicholas (or Nicolas) Jenson (c. 1420–1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy.Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours and is credited with being the creator of one of the finest early Roman typefaces.
Francis Thibaudeau (1860, Cholet, France – 1925, Paris) is a French typographer and creator of the first well-established system for classifying typefaces, the Thibaudeau classification. He devised his system while developing the catalogues for the Renault & Marcou and G. Peignot & Fils foundries in the early 20th century.
The art and craft of designing typefaces is called type design. Designers of typefaces are called type designers and are often employed by type foundries . In desktop publishing , type designers are sometimes also called "font developers" or "font designers" (a typographer is someone who uses typefaces to design a page layout).