Typography-+Emily

Nicolas Jenson
He was a French Engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer. Who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. Jenson constructed the first roman typeface on the basis of typographical principles, as opposed to the old manuscript models. It was first in use in his 1470 edition of Eusebius. In 1471, a Greek typeface followed, which was used for quotations, and then in 1473 a Black Letter typeface, which he used in books on medicine and history. Jenson's highly legible and evenly colored typeface, based upon Humanistic scripts, has been reinterpreted through the centuries by numerous type designers, most notably William Morris. I liked that the typeface was legible. Jenson's typeface was very much valued because it was the first fully developed roman typeface. I don't really remember but I probably used this typeface once in my life in a paper or something that I wanted to look clean, professional and simple. The far left picture is Nicolas Jenson's Typerographers mark, The middle is one piece that was published called The Manual Of Linotype Typography, Published 1923, the last one is simply an example of the roman type. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jenson - http://www.designishistory.com/design/early-typographers/



Pierre Simon
He was a French century punch-cutter, type founder and typographic theoretician. He worked in the rococo form, and design typefaces including Fournier and Narcissus Fournier's main accomplishment is that he ‘created a standardized measuring system that would revolutionize the typography industry forever. Fournier decided to begin creating his punches to a scale of 6 ciceros or 72 points to the Paris Inch, instead of the then-standard height-to-paper method. In his early life, Fournier studied watercolor with J.B.G Colson, and later wood engraving. In 1737, Fournier published his first theoretical work, on the minimum spacing between letters while still retaining readability.I like this style because to me it looks more organic and powerful but It also looks kind of messy so I don't like it for that reason. The first picture shows how to use circles to create serifs, the second picture is the typeface of Fournier. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Simon_Fournier - [|luc.devroye.org]



Neville Brody
London born designer who studied in Britain in the 1970, during school he often created unique and experimental typefaces and this was frowned upon by the school due to its traditional nature. He then went to work for the Face magazine with earned hime lots of credit because this was the "fashion bible" of that time. In 1994 he formed Neville Brody Studio, now Research Studios, which has enjoyed much success and has since expanded to include offices in London, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. He is a founding member of the London based type foundryFontworks and has designed over 20 different typefaces during his career. He was also a major contributor to FUSE, which was a publication about the practice of experimental typography and was an avid user of the computer as a design tool during its developmental stages. I love his style of text, it is very modern and clean looking, almost abstract. Above is a few samples of his work.

- http://www.designishistory.com/1980/neville-brody/