What Do You Know About These Famous Typographers Flashcards

What do you know about typographers? Typography is the design and selection of letterforms to be organized into words and sentences to be arranged in blocks of type as printing on a page. Typography and those who practice it are generally concerned with other related matters, such as the assortment of paper, the choice of ink, the way that they print, and the designing and binding of a book. Read and study these flashcards then take the quiz.

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Front Back
Pierre Simon Fournier
Answer 1
1742 Romain style " family Type" Variating fonts that can be mixed, offered largest metal print of time developed type face sets of Italic, Roman, ect
John Pine
1690-1756 1737 opera horati/ ceif engraver of seals for kings of england.
William Caslon
Answer 3
1692-1766 Caslon old style type with italic, Arabic fonts for society of Christians knowledge. Declaration of independence font.
John Bakersvill
Answer 4
1706-1775 Improved pringting press, master , writer/stone cutter, manufactured jap anned ware,Bridged gap between old style type, created new paper.
Didot Family
Answer 5
1713 Printing/selling bools, made smoother paper, sma;;/ fat type styles, created point system still used in fance today , invented stereotyping.
Giambottista bodoni
Answer 6
evolved now type face and margins from foutnier-le-jeune inspired rococo to modern style redesigned roman letter form to give more mathematical geometrical shapes.
Thomas bewick
Answer 7
1753-1828 father of wood engraving used" white line technique"
Rococo
1720-17770 Composed of C and S curves with scroll work tracery and plants from nature, classical, and oriental, midevil design light pastel colors, Ivory and gold
Louis simonneau
Answer 9
Master alphabetes for the Romain Du Roi 1695
William Blake
Answer 10
Opened printing press shop 1757-1827 19th century romanticism using bright colors and swirling organic forms and expressionist, art nouveau and abstract
Stereotyping
Casting Duplicate of a relief surface by pressing mold material against it to make a matrix, metal is then poured into matrix to form duplicate
Modern style
Private printer, thin straight serifs of grandjeans Romain du doi, fallowed by engraved pages of artist.
Specimen books
Text related to font and definition of the test for copper plate engraving.
Folio
First book to feature romain du roi