Nicolaus Jenson – born 1420 in Sommevoire, France, died 1480 in Venice, Italy – type founder, punch cutter, printer, publisher.
It is thought Jenson was punch cutter (master of the mint) for the royal mint in Tours or Paris. 1458: Carl VII sends Jenson to Mainz to learn the technique of movable metal type and bring it back to Paris. Spends time in Frankfurt am Main. From 1468 onwards: Jenson is in Venice, where he opens and runs his printing workshop which produces c. 150 books. Produces his
[...]American printer, typographer and type designer Frederic Warde (born 1894 in Wells, Minnesota, USA, died 1939 in New York, USA) created the font Centaur®. Bruce Rogers originally designed the exquisite, classical Centaur for the Metropolitan Museum in 1914. The forms are based on those of the famous Renaissance printer Nicolas Jenson. The italic, designed in 1925 by Frederic Warde, was originally called Arrighi. Warde modelled the italic forms on the Italika of Ludovico Vicentino, a 16th
[...]Bruce Rogers – born 14. 5. 1870 in Lynnwood, USA, died 21. 5. 1957 in New Fairfield, USA – typographer, type designer, illustrator, artist.
1885–90: trains as an artist at Purdue College near Lynnwood. From 1894 onwards: produces graphics for "Modern Art" magazine. 1896: joins Riverside Press in Boston, founded in 1888. 1900–12: Riverside’s special prints achieve world acclaim under Roger’s management. Rogers designs over fifty book editions for the press, often using typefaces he has cut
[...]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
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Font Designer: Bruce Rogers, 1928
Bruce Rogers originally designed the exquisite, classical Centaur® typeface in 1914 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The forms are based on those of the famous Renaissance printer Nicolas Jenson. The italic, designed in 1925 by Frederic Warde, was originally called Arrighi. Warde modelled the italic forms on the Italika of Ludovico Vicentino, a 16th century typeface. The capitals are more freely formed. If they had been based on the
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