Monotype Janson® Font Family

Monotype Janson® Regular (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Bold (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Bold Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Expert (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Expert Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Expert Bold (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Expert Bold Italic (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Monotype Janson® Expert Value Pack (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 94.00

Monotype Janson® Value Pack (Monotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 94.00

Robin Nicholas’s early training as an apprentice draftsman let his natural artistic talent fuse with the accuracy and attention to detail required in technical drawing. Typeface design is a similar blend of right- and left-brain activities. Happily for those of us who use fonts, Nicholas’s career path took a turn when he joined the Monotype Type Drawing Office in 1965. After a period of training at Monotype, Nicholas’s first projects involved redrawing master artwork for typefaces licensed [...]

The Monotype Janson font family is based on types originally cut by the Hungarian punch-cutter, Nicolas Kis circa 1690. Named after Anton Janson, a Dutch printer. The original matrices came into the hands of the Stempel foundry in Germany in 1919. New type was cast and proofs made; these were used as the source for Monotype's version of Janson. The original hand cut Janson types have a number of small design irregularities which give the typeface its unique charm. These have been carefully incorporated into the new version. The overall effect is of even color and an easy readability that makes Monotype Janson most at home in book and publishing work.