Plantin
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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 12th, 2001
Designed by: Frank Hinman Pierpont
Contained in Category: Legible
Design owned by: Monotype Imaging
Originally created by: Monotype
MyFonts Keywords: 1880s, 1970s, book text, elegant, Garalde, legible, news, news text, sensible, Times-like

Plantin

Based on overinked proofs taken from worn types of one of Granjon’s late romans surviving at the Plantin Museum, as interpreted in 1913 by Pierpont and the Monotype Corporation drawing office. The lowercase “a” is the wrong font, copied from an eighteenth century replacement.

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