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Didone (typography)

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Didone is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the nineteenth. [1]

76 relations: Akzidenz-Grotesk, Arts and Crafts movement, ATypI, Ball terminal, Baskerville, Bell (typeface), Bembo, Birmingham, Bodoni, Bulmer (typeface), Caslon, Centaur (typeface), Century type family, Clarendon (typeface), Coated paper, Computer Modern, Corporate identity, Counter (typography), Didot (typeface), Donald Knuth, Elephant (typeface), Fine press, Firmin Didot, Frederic Goudy, Garamond, Georgia (typeface), Giambattista Bodoni, Golden Type, Goudy Old Style, Harper's Bazaar, Helvetica, History of modern Greece, Hoefler & Co., Imprint (typeface), John Baskerville, Justus Erich Walbaum, LaTeX, Legibility Group, Lettering, Long s, MacOS, Matthew Butterick, Matthew Carter, Miller & Richard, Miller (typeface), Monotype Imaging, Morris Fuller Benton, Nicolas Jenson, Nicolete Gray, Pantograph, ..., Phototypesetting, Pierre Simon Fournier, Puffing Billy (locomotive), Rare Book Room, Roman type, Rustic capitals, Sans-serif, Science Museum, London, Scotch Roman, Serif, Sign painting, Slab serif, South Kensington, Stanley Morison, Surveyor (typeface), Talbot Baines Reed, TeX, The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Curson Hansard, Tobias Frere-Jones, Typeface, Vincent Figgins, Vox-ATypI classification, Walbaum (typeface), William Caslon, William Morris. Expand index (26 more) »

Akzidenz-Grotesk

Akzidenz-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface family originally released by the Berthold Type Foundry of Berlin.

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Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.

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ATypI

The ATypI or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design.

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Ball terminal

A ball terminal is a design feature of a typeface or glyph where the end of a stroke takes a roughly circular shape, as opposed to a serif or a square end.

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Baskerville

Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punchcutter John Handy.

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Bell (typeface)

Bell is the name given to a serif typeface designed and cut in 1788 by the punchcutter Richard Austin for the British Letter Foundry, operated by publisher John Bell, and revived several times since.

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Bembo

Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928-9 and most commonly used for body text.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bodoni

Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since.

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Bulmer (typeface)

Bulmer is the name given to a serif typeface originally designed by punchcutter William Martin around 1790 for the Shakespeare Press, run by William Bulmer (1757–1830).

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Caslon

Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work.

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Centaur (typeface)

Centaur is a serif typeface by book and typeface designer Bruce Rogers, based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson around 1470.

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Century type family

Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text.

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Clarendon (typeface)

Clarendon is the name of a slab-serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co.

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Coated paper

Coated paper is paper which has been coated by a mixture of materials or a polymer to impart certain qualities to the paper, including weight, surface gloss, smoothness or reduced ink absorbency.

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Computer Modern

Computer Modern is the original family of typefaces used by the typesetting program TeX.

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Corporate identity

A corporate identity or corporate image is the manner which a corporation, firm or business presents themselves to the public (such as customers and investors as well as employees).

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Counter (typography)

In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of).

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Didot (typeface)

Didot is a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing Didot family.

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Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.

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Elephant (typeface)

Elephant is an ultra-bold serif typeface intended for display use, designed as a digital font by British font designer Matthew Carter.

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Fine press

Fine press printing and publishing comprises historical and contemporary printers and publishers publishing books and other printed matter of exceptional intrinsic quality and artistic taste, including both commercial and private presses.

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Firmin Didot

Firmin Didot (14 April 176424 April 1836) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.

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Frederic Goudy

Frederic W. Goudy (March 8, 1865 in Bloomington, Illinois – May 11, 1947 in Marlborough-on-Hudson) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley.

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Garamond

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond (generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime).

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Georgia (typeface)

Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation.

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Giambattista Bodoni

Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 30, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma.

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Golden Type

The Golden Type is a serif font designed by artist William Morris for his fine book printing project, the Kelmscott Press, in 1890.

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Goudy Old Style

Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is a classic old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915.

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Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is an American women's fashion magazine, first published in 1867.

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Helvetica

Helvetica or Neue Haas Grotesk is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Eduard Hoffmann.

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History of modern Greece

The history of modern Greece covers the history of Greece from the recognition of its autonomy from the Ottoman Empire by the Great Powers (Great Britain, France, and Russia) in 1828, after the Greek War of Independence, to the present day.

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Hoefler & Co.

Hoefler & Co. (H&Co) is a type foundry in New York City run by type designer Jonathan Hoefler.

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Imprint (typeface)

Imprint is a serif typeface created by Monotype, commonly used for body text.

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John Baskerville

John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer.

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Justus Erich Walbaum

Justus Erich Walbaum (25 January 1768 – 21 June 1837) was a prominent German typefounder and punchcutter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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LaTeX

LaTeX (or; a shortening of Lamport TeX) is a document preparation system.

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Legibility Group

The Legibility Group is a series of serif typefaces created by the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company and intended for use in newspapers on Linotype's hot metal typesetting system.

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Lettering

In art, graphic design and typography, lettering refers to the creation of hand-drawn letters to apply to an object or surface.

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Long s

The long, medial, or descending s (ſ) is an archaic form of the lower case letter s. It replaced a single s, or the first in a double s, at the beginning or in the middle of a word (e.g. "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "ſucceſsful" for "successful").

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MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

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Matthew Butterick

Matthew Butterick is an American typographer, lawyer, writer, and computer programmer.

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Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter (born 1 October 1937) is a British type designer.

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Miller & Richard

Miller & Richard was a type foundry based in Edinburgh that designed and manufactured metal type.

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Miller (typeface)

Miller is a serif typeface, released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry.

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Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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Morris Fuller Benton

Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937.

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Nicolas Jenson

Nicholas Jenson (c.1420 – 1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy.

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Nicolete Gray

Nicolete Gray (sometimes Nicolette Gray) (20 July 1911–8 June 1997) was an English art scholar and exponent and scholar of calligraphy.

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Pantograph

A pantograph (Greek roots παντ- "all, every" and γραφ- "to write", from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.

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Phototypesetting

Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper.

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Pierre Simon Fournier

Pierre-Simon Fournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician.

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Puffing Billy (locomotive)

Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive,.

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Rare Book Room

Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.

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Roman type

In Latin script typography, roman is one of the three main kinds of historical type, alongside blackletter and italic.

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Rustic capitals

Rustic capitals (littera capitalis rustica) is an ancient Roman calligraphic script.

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Sans-serif

In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

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Science Museum, London

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.

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Scotch Roman

Scotch Roman is a class of typefaces popular in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom.

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Serif

In typography, a serif is a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol.

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Sign painting

Sign painting is the art of painting lettering on buildings, billboards or signboards for the purpose of announcing or advertising products, services and events.

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Slab serif

In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif, antique or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs.

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South Kensington

South Kensington is an affluent district of West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Stanley Morison

Stanley Morison (6 May 1889 – 11 October 1967) was an influential British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing.

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Surveyor (typeface)

Surveyor is a Didone serif typeface that recalls type found on engraved maps and charts.

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Talbot Baines Reed

Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 – 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century.

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TeX

TeX (see below), stylized within the system as TeX, is a typesetting system (or "formatting system") designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth and released in 1978.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thomas Curson Hansard

Thomas Curson Hansard (6 November 1776 – 5 May 1833) was an English pressman, son of the printer Luke Hansard.

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Tobias Frere-Jones

Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City.

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Typeface

In typography, a typeface (also known as font family) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features.

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Vincent Figgins

Vincent Figgins (1766-1844), of Peckham, England, was a British type-founder.

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Vox-ATypI classification

In typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces in eleven general classes.

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Walbaum (typeface)

Walbaum is the name given to serif typefaces in the "Didone" or modern style that are, or revive the work of early nineteenth-century punchcutter Justus Erich Walbaum (1768 – 1837), based in Goslar and then in Weimar.

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William Caslon

William Caslon I (1692/1693 – 23 January 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder, was an English typefounder.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didone_(typography)

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