![]() ![]() One of the committee members, Jacques Jaugeon - at that time better known as a maker of educational board games - in consultation with other members, produced the designs constructed on a 48×48 grid (2,304 squares). The Romain du Roi is often referred to as Grandjean’s type, but the designs were produced by a committee* set up by the French Academy of Science. Remember, this is the Age of the Enlightenment, marked by resistance to tradition, whether that be art, literature, philosophy, religion, whatever so it’s no surprise that this same era should give birth to radically different types. ![]() The Romain du Roi marked a significant departure from the former Old Style types and was much less influenced by handwritten letterforms. But today we stand in the cobbled streets of 17th century France Louis XIV is on the throne and Jacques Jaugeon is working on what is now considered to be the first Transitional (or Neoclassical) style typeface, the Romain du Roi or King’s Roman, commissioned by Louis XIV for the Imprimerie Royale in 1692. ![]() Today we’ve moved along the time-line to the cusp of the 18th century, the start of a period in history that we now refer to as the The Enlightenment, a time that was to sow the seeds of revolution in France, North America and beyond. In part two we considered the Old Style or Garalde types and also discovered how this era gave birth to the first italic type in 1501. In part one we traveled all the way back to the 15th century to take a closer look at the Humanist or Venetian style types with their distinctive lowercase ‘e’ (remember that sloping crossbar?). Welcome to part three of our Type Terms series. FontShop link.For a modern-day transitional typeface, be sure to check out the Brill typeface family. In 2009, the Baskerville Project was conceived, an animated movie with David Osbaldestin as its Creative Director, and Caroline Archer and Ben Waddington as researchers. Local download.īiography by Nicholas Fabian. Publications include Essai d'épreuves des caractàres de la fonderie de Baskerville (Paris, ca. Linotype offers 38 Baskerville typefaces. In modern times, we find the 1978 rendering of ITC New Baskerville by Matthew Carter and John Quaranda. The modern types became more popular than Baskerville, and people had to wait until 1917 when Bruce Rogers revived Baskerville's type for the Harvard University Press, followed by Stanley Morison's revival in 1924 for the British Monotype Company. It was there in 1763 he published his master work, a folio Bible, which was printed using his own typeface, ink, and paper. In 1758, he was appointed printer to the Cambridge University Press. In 1757, Baskerville published his first work, a collection of Virgil, which was followed by some fifty other classics. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. He increased the thick-thin contrast over that found in Caslon's types, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. ![]() In 1757, he created his famous serif typefaces, which were called transitional as they were somewhat between the old style typefaces of William Caslon and the modern types of Bodoni and Didot. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onīirmingham-based British writing master, stonecutter, letter designer, typefounder and printer (1706-1775). ![]()
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