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Cultural tradition ensured that German typography and type design remained true to the gothic/blackletter spirit; but the parallel influence of the humanist and neo-classical typography in Italy (the first country outside of Germany with a printing press) catalyzed texture into four additional sub-styles that were distinct, structurally rich ...
Rusher's Patent Types were the characters of an experimental serif typeface invented, patented and promoted by Philip Rusher in Banbury, England, from 1802 onwards. [b] The typeface removed the descenders from the lower-case letters and shortened the ascenders, which Rusher hoped would make the typeface "more uniform" and save paper.
First page of Paul's epistle to Philemon in the Rochester Bible (12th century). A modern calligraphic rendition of the word calligraphy (Denis Brown, 2006). Western calligraphy is the art of writing and penmanship as practiced in the Western world, especially using the Latin alphabet (but also including calligraphic use of the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, as opposed to "Eastern" traditions ...
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.
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.
The history of typography may refer to: History of Western typography, for the history of typography in Europe and the wider Western world;
The Type Archive (formerly the Type Museum) was a collection of artefacts representing the legacy of type founding in England, whose famous type foundries and composing systems supplied the world with type in over 300 languages. [1] [2] The Archive was founded in 1992 by Susan Shaw in Stockwell, South London.
Robert Thorne (1754 – 11 March 1820) [1] was a British type founder and typographer. [2] An apprentice to Thomas Cottrell, who had been an employee of William Caslon, [3] Thorne later acquired Cottrell's type foundry. [4]