Creator
Pierre-Simon Fournier
Title
Manuel Typographique.
Coverage
Paris
Publisher
Printed for the author
Date
1764–66
Subject
Octavo, two volumes
Description
Pierre-Simon Fournier (also known as Fournier Le Jeune, to distinguish him from his printer father, Jean-Claude Fournier), was among the most important typographers of eighteenth-century France, and not only because of his popular transitional type designs. He was also one of the earliest developers of a point system (including features such as a pica divided into 12 points), that are in use to this day. Fournier’s system allowed for consistent measuring of type sizes.
Fournier’s type designs were very influential, forming the basis of a popular typeface revival produced by the Monotype Corporation in 1929.
Fournier’s type designs were very influential, forming the basis of a popular typeface revival produced by the Monotype Corporation in 1929.
Relation
PROVENANCE: Daniel Berkeley Updike, author of Printing Types and proprietor of the Merrymount Press; later David R. Godine