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- The Early Designers of Type
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- Tory
- In 1529 a French artist, calligrapher and author wrote a book called
- Champ Fleury. This book contained the Art and Science of the Proper and True
- Proportions of Attic letters, otherwise called Antique or Roman letters, which
- was Tory's writings on his methods of designing typefaces that were
- proportioned according to the human body and face.
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- Dürer
- Another pioneer of the design of type was a German called Albrecht Dürer, a
- famous painter in the early sixteenth century. Dürer devoted a chapter in his
- book, A Painters Manual - 1525, to the design of typefaces using geometric
- principles. These letters were among the foundations of many of todays modern
- typefaces, pathing the way from the old style Gothic or Black letters to a
- thinner more sophisticated Roman style.
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- Pacioli
- The Italian inventor of accountancys double entry book keeping methods, Lucas
- Pacioli, was also a designer of typefaces using mathematical principles. In
- Pacioli's early sixteenth century book entitled De Divina Proportione, he shows
- his designs of letters that use the similar principles of geometry to Dürer.
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