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Janson Text™ from Linotype Janson Text™ is a Linotype font family with 8 styles. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: September 14th, 2000
Designed by: Miklós Tótfalusi Kis
Designed when: 1985
Letterform design based on: Kis
Contained in Categories: Legible, Transitional
Design owned by: Linotype
Originally created by: Linotype
MyFonts Keywords: 1600s, 1700s, book, book text, dutch, elegant, English, feminine, formal, funeral, Hungarian, Janson, legible, old-style numerals, oldstyle, serif, transitional
Janson
A faithful recreation of one of the great seventeenth century Dutch typefaces cut by the protestant Transylvanian Nicolas Kis. The matrices survive at Stempel; their value was recognized by Chauncey Griffith at Mergenthaler Linotype, who used Kis’ 14 point to undertake the revival for composing machines while following a Voskens italic better suited to the Linotype than the Kis italics. George Ostrochulski adapted the face for photocomposition at Mergenthaler, returning to the original italics.
Janson Text
The Janson font was based on the matrices made for the typeface in the 17th century. It originated from the Dutch typeface designer Anton Janson and was cut by Nicholas Kis. The strong main strokes and fine hair strokes were influenced by the art of copper engraving.
In 1983, Prof. Horst Heiderhoff led the expansion of the Janson into a font family with various stroke contrasts and gave it the name Janson Text.
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