Word: granjon
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...About faces" contains samples of the italic, roman and handwriting-based types although the non-chronological arrangement of the pieces somewhat obscures the history. A 1526 book on display contains text set in a font Ludovico degli Arrighi designed after his own handwriting, and the French designer Robert Granjon used a hand-based script-complete with overstated ascenders and descenders and exggerated capital-in a 1558 publication...
...obvious to any student of Miss Peruty's that The House on the Sound is by far the least interesting of her books typographically. Although I am merely an amateur as far as printing is concerned. I noted immediately the flawed quality of the 9-point Granjon Bold. In several instances the lower' case 'm' was disrupted by a slash across the base, and I even observed a wrong-font 't' on one occasion...
...publique Chrétienne," as he called it. In 34 years he printed 1,500 publications amounting to more than a million volumes. He pioneered in the use of copperplate engraving, and got original type faces (still widely copied in modern printing) from the great French designers Garamond and Granjon. He printed the first pocket-sized books for travelers, produced the first modern atlas. He spoke French, Flemish, Spanish, German and Latin, and scholars from all over Europe came to Antwerp to get him to publish their works...
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