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Jean Jannon (died 20 December 1658) was a French Protestant printer, type designer, punchcutter and typefounder active in Sedan in the seventeenth century. He was a reasonably prolific printer by contemporary standards, printing several hundred books.
Jean Jannon French typographer (1580-1658) ... Upload media Wikipedia. Name in native language: Jean Jannon; Date of birth: April 1580 Geneva: Date of death: 20 ...
May 21, 2024 · Jean Jannon (1580–1658), formerly of the workshop of Robert III Estienne, in Paris, expert in engraving and foundry, master printer in 1606, settled in Sedan from 1610. He worked there for the account of Prince Henri de la Tour d’Auvergne and the Protestant Academy established in this reformed stronghold.
It was the work of another Frenchman, Jean Jannon (1580-1658), a 17th-century printer and punch-cutter. As a printer he was unremarkable, but as a designer and punch-cutter he was unparalleled, cutting the smallest type ever seen, an italic and roman of a size less than what would now be 5pt.
In 1621, sixty years after Garamond's death, the French printer Jean Jannon released a specimen of typefaces in the Garamond/Granjon style. Jannon wrote in his specimen that:
Sep 9, 2011 · The type of similar appearance, cut by Jean Jannon about 1621, became the property of the Imprimerie Nationale, achieving worldwide attention about 1900 under the name of caractères de l’Université. This latter type was mistakenly attributed to Claude Garamond.
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Jan 19, 2021 · JJannon. The fonts of Jean Jannon, a.k.a. the would-be Garamond, were underrated by twentieth-century typographers. Type designers, too, had a curious love-hate relationship with Jannon, whose legacy they viewed as a kind of fraud because of the long-standing misattribution of his work to Garamond.
