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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.
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About. 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.
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.
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.
Feb 1, 2022 · His typefaces, meticulously designed to resemble a more legible version of pen-and-ink handwriting, inspired a printer named Jean Jannon to create a similar type (also named after Garamond) in the ...
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Jean Jannon. Typefaces: Garamond (37) Monotype Garamond (15) Simoncini Garamond (3) Garamond Classico. Sarabande. Trop Magus.
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