Jenson Old Style™ Font Family

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Colin Brignall – born 1940 in Warwickshire, England – photographer, type designer, art director. Started work as photographer for the fashion trade, the press and industry. 1964: joins the Letraset Type Studio as photographic technician. Since 1974: type designer for Letraset International. Since 1980: type director for Esselte Letraset in London. Fonts: Countdown™ (1965), Aachen™ (1969), Premier™ Lightline (1969), Revue™ (1969), Premier™ shaded (1970), Superstar™ (1970), Octopuss™ [...]

The British designer Freda Sack (born 1951) created the following fonts: Ignatius™ (1987), Jenson Old Style™ bold condensed (with Colin Brignall, 1982), Orlando™ (1986), Paddington™ (1977), Proteus™ (1983), Vermont™ (1987), Victorian™ (with Colin Brignall, 1976). These fonts are included in the Linotype Library.

Based on the classic forms of the Venecian Renaissance-Antiqua of Nicolaus Jenson (1470), Jenson Classico was developed by Franco Luin in 1993. This dynamic typeface lends your text a classic, formal feel. Jenson Old Style was developed by Freda Sack and Colin Brignall in 1982 and is particularly suited to emphasizing text. Click here to see the complete fontlists of Jenson Classico™ and Jenson Old Style™.

In 1458, Charles VII sent the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson to learn the craft of movable type in Mainz, the city where Gutenberg was working. Jenson was supposed to return to France with his newly learned skills, but instead he traveled to Italy, as did other itinerant printers of the time. From 1468 on, he was in Venice, where he flourished as a punchcutter, printer and publisher. He was probably the first non-German printer of movable type, and he produced about 150 editions. Though his punches have vanished, his books have not, and those produced from about 1470 until his death in 1480 have served as a source of inspiration for type designers over centuries. His Roman type is often called the "first true Roman." Notable in almost all Jensonian Romans is the angled crossbar on the lowercase e, which is known as the "Venetian Oldstyle e."

Jenson Old Style™ was designed by Freda Sack and Colin Brignall for Letraset in 1982. Because of its darkness, this version is best used for display designs that call for a sense of old-world elegance and solidity.