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  2. Pierre Simon Fournier - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. William Austin Burt - Wikipedia

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    Among Burt's numerous inventions were the typographer in 1829, which was a predecessor to the typewriter. [3] He also invented the solar compass , a surveying tool used in the Michigan Survey , employed in regions which had an abundance of minerals that would interfere with accurate readings when using ordinary instruments.

  4. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The svelte French style reached its fullest refinement in the roman types attributed to the best-known figure of French typography—Claude Garamond (also Garamont). In 1541 Robert Estienne , printer to the king, helped Garamond obtain commissions to cut the sequence of Greek fonts for King Francis I of France , known as the " grecs du roi ".

  5. Typography - Wikipedia

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    A revolving type case for wooden type in China, an illustration shown in a book published in 1313 by Wang Zhen Korean movable type from 1377 used for the Jikji. Although typically applied to printed, published, broadcast, and reproduced materials in contemporary times, all words, letters, symbols, and numbers written alongside the earliest naturalistic drawings by humans may be called typography.

  6. Typographer (typewriter) - Wikipedia

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    The typographer was an early typewriter invented by William Austin Burt. [1] Intended to aid in office work, the machine worked by using a lever to press characters onto paper one at a time. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was the first typewriting machine to be patented in the United States, although Pellegrino Turri had made one in Italy in 1808. [ 4 ]

  7. Claude Garamond - Wikipedia

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    Claude Garamond. Claude Garamont (c. 1510 –1561), [1] known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. [2] [3] Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type.

  8. Typeface - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.

  9. Didot (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    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.