| Date:1469
Designer:
Nicolas Jenson
Foundry:
Jenson founder and printer
Location:
Venice, Italy
Current equivalent:
Adobe Jenson Pro shown above
See also:
Golden Type, Doves Type, Ludlow Eusebius Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Postscript
Opentype |
| Famous for:
The first and arguably the best of the 'romans'. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting Ubiquity:
Very widely used Category:
Venetian Roman
Stress: Angled
Serifs: Oblique | | Design history:
Jenson's type, although a definitive (humanist) renaissance letterform, still had the blackness associated with the gothic types that originated in Northern Europe, but had combined Roman capitals (majuscules) with Carolingian-derived minuscule to form uppercase and lowercase alphabets within the same font. Classified as a Venetian after the place of its inception, the signature attribute of this style is the rising bar on the lowercase 'e'. Jenson's work was revived by William Morris and others, in the late 19th century as a benchmark for the Arts and Crafts movement. | |  |
