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Jean Jannon (died 20 December 1658) [1] 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. [2] [3] Career.
Jean Jannon [1], né à Genève [2] en avril 1580 et mort le 20 décembre 1658 à Sedan, est un typographe et imprimeur français. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Il semble avoir fait son apprentissage d'imprimeur, d'abord à Genève , puis en Suisse à Lausanne et à Bâle , puis en Allemagne , et il a terminé sa formation à Paris ...
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Dec 27, 2022 · Jean Jannon was a French Protestant printer, punchcutter, typefounder, and type designer, active in Sedan in the seventeenth century. His work was frequently mistakenly credited to Claude Garamond ...
Jean Jannon & "Garamont" & Beatrice Warde In the 1920's an American type historian, Beatrice Warde, (1900-1969) discovered that Jannon's matrices had been incorrectly identified as the work of Garamont. In 1926, Ms Warde, who had worked for both the American Type Founders and Monotype, made her reputation on an article in which she wrote about ...
Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and body text . Garamond's types followed the model of an influential typeface cut for Venetian printer ...
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- Adobe Garamond Pro (regular style based on Garamond's work; italic on the work of Robert Granjon)
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 French typographer (1580-1658) ... Upload media Wikipedia. Name in native language: Jean Jannon; Date of birth: April 1580 Geneva: Date of death: 20 ...
