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The matrices of Jannon's Imprimerie nationale type. 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.
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
