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
[...]Designer Alan Meeks (born 1951 in London) created the following fonts: Ambrose™, Aachen™ medium and bold (with Colin Brignall, 1969/1977), Algerian Condensed (1988), Astoria, Belwe Mono™ (1976/1989), Bertie™ (1985), Bickley Script™ (1986), Bramley™ (1979), Brigade, Burlington™ (1985), Cabaret™ (1980), Campaign™ (1987), Cancellaresca Script™ (1982), Candice™ (1976), Chalfont, Champers™ (1991), Chesterfield™ (1977), Claude Sans™ (1988/1990), Copacabana, Dynamo (with Colin Brignall, 1977),
[...]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
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