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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.
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. Such misunderstandings may explain why so few ...
Jean Jannon. Typefaces: Garamond (37) Monotype Garamond (15) Simoncini Garamond (3) Garamond Classico. Sarabande. Trop Magus.
The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son ...
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Jean is a revival typeface based on Jean Jannon’s type. Jean Jannon is considered one of the main representatives of French typography in the first half of the 17th century and the first of the great typographic artists of the European Baroque. Jannon’s typefaces were based on Claude Garamond’s design.
Early Typographers. The years between the mid-15th century and the early 18th century proved to be a time of many changes and developments in the world of typography. The development of the printing press influenced the development of full typefaces and their production rather than the job-specific approach that most typography was developed for.
Oct 4, 2010 · Bowl: Enclosed round space within letters like the “o” and “p” or “B”. Counter or Counterform: Open rounded space within letters like the “c”, “G” or “U.”. The lowercase “e” has a bowl and a counterform. Letterspace: The most literal typographic term, Letterspacing is adding blank space between individual letters.
