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TypographyBaskerville, a typeface designed in 1754, is most celebrated for its crisp edges, high contrast and generous proportions. The typeface was heavily influenced by the processes of the Birmingham-bred John Baskerville, a master type-founder and printer.

“Having been an early admirer of the beauty of letters, I became insensibly desirous of contributing to the perfection of them. I formed to myself ideas of greater accuracy than had yet appeared, and had endeavoured to produce a set of types according to what I conceived to be their true proportion.”—John Baskerville

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An Era of Typographic Geniuses1700 - 1800’sThe Enlightenment was the period in history of western thought and culture spanning from the late seventeen hun-dreds through the eighteenth century. The period is char-acterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, so-ciety and politics. These many revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and pioneered our modern western world. The Enlightenment emphasized that the universe was composed of logical patterns that could be discovered by hu-mans to better understand the world around them. The ideas challenged tradition, God, and the power of Kings, which sparked the American and French revolutions.

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Authors InfoPublished Nov 2014This publication was written and designed by Abbie Giffin, Jacob Headid, and Michael Johnson.

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Table of ContentsLouis SimoneauPhilippe GrandjeanRomain du RoiPierre Simon FournierWilliam CaslonFrancois-Ambroise DidotFirmin DidotHerman BertholdGeofroy ToryGeorge BickhamRobert CleeJohn PineLouis Rene LuceJohn BaskervilleGiambatista BodoniThe Age of ReasonNicolas RobertBibliography

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Louis Simonneau (1645-1728) was a prolific French engraver, born in Orleans at the begin-ning of the Enlightenment. His contemporary Philippe Grandjean (1666-1714) was a type en-graver as well. When in 1692 King Louis XIV, the Sun King, decided that the French monarchy needed their own typeface, the two of them were commissioned to work together on it. Simonneau engraved the letterform designs and Grandjean cut the punches for the metal type.

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Romain du Roi1692Called “Romain du Roi” (lit. Roman of the King, meaning the Roman alphabet), King Louis XIV’s typeface exemplifies Enlighten-ment ideals like logical order and rational de-sign. Before, typefaces evolved natrually from engraver to engraver. Romain du Roi was a complete break from Old Style typefaces. The result of careful planning and strict adherance to a grid. It also emphasised greater thick/thin contrast than had been seen before, something that would heavily influence the creation of later transitional typefaces.

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Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune was a type de-signer, type founder, and punch-cutter. He fa-vored the flourishing, natrual lines that were the hallmark of Rococo style. By the time he was 24 he opened his own type foundery, but it was his work to standardize type size that is his true leg-acy. In 1737 he published his first table of pro-portions, called the Fournier scale. The pouce (a now-obsolete measurment a little longer than an inch) was divided into 12 lines, which were each divided into six points.

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1693-1766William Caslon was an Englishtype creator who ‘s typefaces are based on Dutch Old Style. He is remembered best for the clearness and legibility of his type. His titular typeface, Caslon, was an instant success in 1726 and for the next 60 years became the most widly used typeface in England.

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Francois-Ambroise

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Francois-Ambroise Didot was a partisan print-er and publisher who designed several Neoclassical romans and italics during his time. Father of Firmin Didot, Francois-Ambroise Didot was the founder of the Didot dynasty in printing and typography. Benjamin Franklin Bache, apprenticed to Didot by his grandfather Benjamin Franklin, described Francois-Am-broise as the best printer of all time.

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FirminDidot

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Firmin Didot, son of François-Ambroise Didot was the inventor of stereotypography, which entirely changed the book trade. Firmin Didot was the first to engrave slips of so-called “English” and round hand-writing. Along with Giambattista Bodoni of Italy, Firmin Didot is credited with designing and establishing the use of the “Modern” classi-fication of typefaces. The types that Didot used are characterized by extreme contrast in thick strokes and thin strokes, by the use of hairline serifs and by the vertical stress of the letters.

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HermannBerthold

Hermann Berthold founded the H. Berthold typefoundry in 1858 in Berlin. By 1918 the foundry has become the largest in the world, creating high-quality typefaces. Berthold con-tinuly developed typesetting equipment, and by the 1950’s the foundry had invented the first photosypesetting machine, the Diatype.Then, in the 1960’s, Berthold introduced the Diatron-ic, the first key-controlled phototypesetting ma-chine for mass production.

1831-1904

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GeofroyTory

Geofroy Tory was one of the most influential printer in Paris during the first third of the sixteenth century. He illustrated how to draw letters with geometrical form, and how their proportions related to the human body. Tory was a publisher, printer, author, and engraver who was credited for pioneering the Renasis-sance style of book decoation, as well as the roman letter. Tory was appointed impimeur du roi (“printer to the king”) by Francis I in 1530.

Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533, “Champ Fleury, Segond Livre, Feuil XXI recto,” ColumbiaUniversity Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed November 4, 2014.

Excerpt from Champfl-eury by Geoffroy Tory from Letter and Image. by Massin. Studio Vista, London, 1970. University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed November 4, 2014.

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GeorgeBickham

George Bickham was an English author, en-graver, and writing master. He is best known for his engraving in The Universal Penman, which is a collection of writings that lead the way for English Round Hand script in the eighteenth century. The Universal Penman displayed examples from 25 London writing masters of the time, and became the most popular piece of text used by writing masters to instruct their students.

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Robert Clee

Robert Clee was an English engraver. He created typefaces as well as trade cards. Trade cards are the 18th century equiva-lent of a modern day business card. Like Fournier le Jeune, he was a follower of Rococo style, and the curved lines, elab-orate decoration, and fine detail of said style can be seen in both his visual work and his textual compositions.

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John Pine

John Pine was an English engraver. designer and cartographer often noted for his contribution to the Augustan style and Newtonian scientific model that thrived during British Enlighten-ment. In 1773 John began to work on an edition of the works of Horace, which was condsidered a masterpiece of 18th century book art. Pine engraved hundred of pages contatining both text and illustrations.

1690–1756

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Louis Rene LuceLouis Rene Luce was a French type designer and punch cutter. From the years 1740–1770 he de-signed a series of typeface that narrow and con-densed accompanied by extremely sharp serifs. Luce designed a large series of letterpress bor-ders, ornaments, trophies, and other illustrations of impressive variety with much emphasis on ex-cellent printing quality.

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John Baskerville

John Baskerville is most known for his type de-signs. His typefaces were greatly admired by Ben-jamin Franklin , a printer and fellow member of the Royal Society of Arts who took the designs back to the newly created United States, where he adopted Baskerville’s typefaces for use in most federal government publishing. John’s work was heavily criticized at the time by competitors , but since the 1920’s there have been several revivals of his work mostly called ‘Baskerville’.

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GiambatistaBodoniOften referred to as the king of printers as a result of his Manuel Typografico which was a compilation of his lifes work, which was published after his death . Bodoni designed a variety of typefaces, ranging in type sizes. Giambatatista is greatly rec-ognized for his role as a compositor, and his great use of subtle line spacing. Much like Baskerville he sets off his texts with wide margins and uses very little illustrations or decorations. There have been several revivals of his typefaces all called ‘Bodoni’.

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The Age of Reason

In central Europe, the 18th century was known as the Age of Reason, or the Age of Enlightenment. Starting in France, but spreading as far as the Americas, the Age of Reason championed logic and rational thought. Discourse opened on the relationships between man, nature, and God. The idea of a civilization structured by tradition and faith was questioned, even rejected, as intellectuals sought to improve society through rational change. The notion that humans could restructure society for the better was, itself, a revolutionary concept. The Enlightenment emphasized that the universe was composed of logical patterns and principles that could be discovered by humans and used to better understand and interact with the world around them. Enlight-enment ideas challenged tradition, God, and the power of Kings. They directly sparked the American and French revolutions and their influences can be seen in the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

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In 1799, Nicolas-Louis Robert invented the pa-permaking machine. Robert was a clerk at a French publishing company run by the Didot family. He was promoted and began to oversee the workers, vatmen, couchers, and laymen who toiled to make currency paper for the Ministry of Finance. Annoyed by the constant arguing of the laborers, he was inspired to look for a mechanical solution to the paper making process. The ma-chine could produce nearly 20 feet of paper per minute, although it was somewhat inferior quality.

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–Hermann Berthold Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. 3rd ed. Heartley & Marks. 333-358. Print.Image 10: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/9/9a/Hermann_Berthold.jpg/220px-Hermann_Berthold.jpgImage 11: H. Berthold AG, Schriftsetzerei, Photo : Barbara Calendar

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–George Bickhamimage 14: Photo: George Bickham the Elder, by George Bickham the Younger, 1741image 15: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Bickham-ABC.pngimage 16: http://www.usask.ca/english/barbauld/images/gbickham_penmansadvice.jpg

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