type foundry
101Typographic unit — Typographic units are the units of measurement used in typography or typesetting. The traditional units are different from common metric units, as they were established earlier. Even though these units are all very small, across a line of print… …
102OpenType — Filename extension .otf, .ttf Type code OTTO Uniform Type Identifier public.opentype font Developed by Microsoft Adobe Systems Latest release 1.6 …
103Mistral (typeface) — Category Script Classification Casual script Designer(s) Roger Excoffon Foundry …
104Simoncini — SA Industry Type foundry Founder(s) Francesco Simoncini Headquarters Bologna, Italy The Simoncini SA was a manufacturer of linecaster matrices established by Italian type designer Francesco Simoncini shortly after the Second World War. Simoncini… …
105Nelson Hawks — For the Major League baseball player, see Chicken Hawks. Nelson Crocker Hawks (1840–1929) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA on August 21, 1840. He is notable for creating the 12 points per inch pica typographical standard [1]. This system was …
106Roger Excoffon — (7th September, 1910–1983), French typeface designer and graphic designer. Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix en Provence, and after, moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own… …
107CALLIGRAPHY, MODERN HEBREW — Origins The origins of modern Hebrew calligraphy can be found in two ways. One can seek its sources in Hebrew scribal traditions, or one can see it as part of the international revival of calligraphy as an art form, a movement that has grown… …
108Matthew Carter — For other people of the same name, see Matt Carter (disambiguation). Specimens of typefaces by Matthew Carter. Matthew Carter (born in London in 1937)[1] is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States …
109Joseph W. Phinney — Born 1848 Nantucket Died 1934 Nationality American Field typography …
110Andrew Hoyem — (born 1935) is a typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet, and preservationist. He is the founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco, which produces some of the most beautiful limited edition, handprinted books in the world,… …
