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While woodblock printing and movable type had precedents in East Asia, typography in the Western world developed after the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. The initial spread of printing throughout Germany and Italy led to the enduring legacy and continued use of blackletter, roman, and italic types .
Pages in category "French typographers and type designers" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Didot (typeface) Didot is a group of typefaces. The word/name Didot came from the famous French printing and type-producing Didot family. [ 1] The classification is known as modern, or Didone . The most famous Didot typefaces were developed in the period 1784–1811. Firmin Didot (1764–1836) cut the letters, and cast them as type in Paris.
Specimens of typefaces designed by Zapf. Hermann Zapf (German:; 8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany.. He was married to the calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf-von Hes
Romain du Roi. The Romain du Roi ( French for "King's roman ") was a typeface developed in France beginning in 1692. The name refers to Louis XIV who commissioned the design of the new typeface for use by the Royal Print Office. [ 1][ 2] The Romain du Roi stands as a landmark of typography in the Age of Enlightenment.
The Frutiger typeface was commissioned for use at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1975. It has also been used for regulatory and warning signs in Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties. Also the official font for all the signage system of the Spanish Government.
Bodoni ( / bəˈdoʊni /, Italian: [boˈdoːni]) is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since. [ 1][ 2] Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type ...
Aldhabi [ 1] calligraphic Arabic font by Microsoft. Aisha (Arabic, Latin) Aparajita (Angika, Bhojpuri, Bodo and other Indian languages) Arek (Armenian, Latin) Arial (Used in English, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages) [ 2] Avory (Cyrillic, Greek, Latin) Awami Nastaliq features a more extensive character set than most Nastaliq typefaces ...