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Jannon from Storm Jannon is a Storm font family with 55 styles priced from $55.00. Click a Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information for a particular group of fonts, or see purchase options for the entire family. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: May 16th, 2002 (Updated: Feb 25th, 04)
Designed by: František Štorm
Contained in Category: Transitional
Design owned by: Storm
MyFonts Keywords: 1600s, baroque, Jannon, old-style numerals, optical sizes, serif, swashes, text, transitional
Jannon
The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son Excellence et de l'Academie Sédanoise". He began working on his own alphabet in 1615, so that he would not have to order type for his printing office from Paris, Holland and Germany, which at that time was rather difficult.
The other reason was that not only the existing type faces, but also the respective punches were rapidly wearing out. Their restoration was extremely painstaking, not to mention the fact that the result would have been just a poor shadow of the original elegance. Thus a new type face came into existence, standing on a traditional basis, but with a life-giving sparkle from its creator. In 1621 Jannon published a Roman type face and italics, derived from the shapes of Garamond's type faces.
As late as the start of the 20th century Jannon’s type face was mistakenly called Garamond, because it looked like that type face at first sight. Jannon’s Early Baroque Roman type face, however, differs from Garamond in contrast and in having grander forms. Jannon’s italics rank among the most successful italics of all time -- they are brilliantly cut and elegant.
The classic roman proportions of Claude Garamond’s typefaces and the early Baroque spirit of Jean Jannon’s brilliant italics come together in this sparkling Czech adaptation. Jannon Text has proportions which have been adjusted for small sizes. The family Text Medium OSF (with newly released small capitals) is a wise choice for every designer of fiction books. The OpenType version contains over 730 glyphs, including ligatures, small caps, alternate figures, ornaments, and complete Western and Central European coverage.
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