Spécimen des Nouveaux Caractères et de L'Imprimerie de P. Didot.

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Creator

Firmin Didot (1764–1836)

Title

Spécimen des Nouveaux Caractères et de L'Imprimerie de P. Didot.

Coverage

Paris

Publisher

Pierre Didot

Date

1819

Subject

Octavo

Description

The Didot family has a long history in the field of typography in France. Perhaps the most important member of the dynasty was Firmin Didot, who cut a very refined series of modern typefaces for his printer brother Pierre (1761–1853).

François-Ambrose (1730–1804), also cut typefaces, but it was his son Pierre who moved the family’s type repertoire towards a more modern style, employing very light thins contrasting with heavy thick strokes, extremely thin unbracketed serifs, and the rational vertical shading that was pioneered by Grandjean and Baskerville, and a little later brought to its logical conclusion by Bodoni and Walbaum.

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