Comments on: Today’s Links (05/04/06) http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2006/04/05/todays-links-050406/ Wed, 23 May 2012 01:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2006/04/05/todays-links-050406/comment-page-1/#comment-2347 Paul Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:40:00 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=1068#comment-2347 <p>Now there's an interesting fact. From my research, Plantin was a font that was much loved and used by publishers of first edition (scottish) enlightenment texts. According to Linotype, Plantin (the font that I used) was designed in 1913 - way after the aforementioned texts would have been first printed. So given that the famous 16th century printer <i>Christophe Plantin</i> produced hundreds of fonts, I wonder if there was one generic Plantin-esque font that printers/publishing houses favoured in the early to mid 19th century... </p> <p>Very interesting...</p> Now there’s an interesting fact. From my research, Plantin was a font that was much loved and used by publishers of first edition (scottish) enlightenment texts. According to Linotype, Plantin (the font that I used) was designed in 1913 - way after the aforementioned texts would have been first printed. So given that the famous 16th century printer Christophe Plantin produced hundreds of fonts, I wonder if there was one generic Plantin-esque font that printers/publishing houses favoured in the early to mid 19th century…

Very interesting…

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