Nicholas Jenson was born in Sommevoire, France in 1420. He works as an as a printer, type designer, punch cutter, and engraver from 1468 until his death in Venice - Italy in 1480. At the beginning of his career, Jenson was acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours and he was sent in 1458 to Mainz-Germany by King Charles VII to study the art of type founding and both punch cutting and printing.
In 1468, he set up a print shop in Venice. Jenson was mostly known for his excellent typographic skills, and he created about 150 books, as well as he focused on religious and classical works. Jenson created a different typeface such as Roman Font, Greek typeface and Black letter font.
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It was designed and cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1450. It is an old-style serif typeface drawn for Adobe Systems and it’s a Roman style that is based on a Venetian old-style text face, which is cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1470. The result is an organic, somewhat idiosyncratic font, with a low x-height, and there is an inconsistency that helps differentiate letters to make it a highly readable typeface appropriate for large amounts of text.
Adobe Jenson known for it relaxed forms, as well as readability and evenness of color. Adobe Jenson Pro’s typeface considered as an open type and contains faces specifically designed for optical sizes. It includes 32 different typefaces, different alternates, case forms, old style figures, ordinals, ornaments, as well as supers and subscripts. Adobe Jenson was created for printing, especially for quotations, books on medicine, religious and …show more content…
The font family supports Adobe CE , ISO-Adobe and dingbat character sets. The whole family comes with four weights and each in roman and italic, and also four optical sizes. Supported Open Type features include Stylistic alternates, proportional numbers, old style figures, small caps, subscripts and superscripts, and swashes.
Most of Nicolas Jenson book was about classical texts and religious. One of his books called De Evangelica Praeparatione. Jenson printed this book in 1470 and it was considered humanist Roman typeface that was based entirely on contemporary calligraphy.
One of a set of Optical Sizes with the fonts: Adobe Jenson Caption, Adobe Jenson Subhead and Adobe Jenson
In 1468, he set up a print shop in Venice. Jenson was mostly known for his excellent typographic skills, and he created about 150 books, as well as he focused on religious and classical works. Jenson created a different typeface such as Roman Font, Greek typeface and Black letter font.
All the contribution made by …show more content…
It was designed and cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1450. It is an old-style serif typeface drawn for Adobe Systems and it’s a Roman style that is based on a Venetian old-style text face, which is cut by Nicolas Jenson in 1470. The result is an organic, somewhat idiosyncratic font, with a low x-height, and there is an inconsistency that helps differentiate letters to make it a highly readable typeface appropriate for large amounts of text.
Adobe Jenson known for it relaxed forms, as well as readability and evenness of color. Adobe Jenson Pro’s typeface considered as an open type and contains faces specifically designed for optical sizes. It includes 32 different typefaces, different alternates, case forms, old style figures, ordinals, ornaments, as well as supers and subscripts. Adobe Jenson was created for printing, especially for quotations, books on medicine, religious and …show more content…
The font family supports Adobe CE , ISO-Adobe and dingbat character sets. The whole family comes with four weights and each in roman and italic, and also four optical sizes. Supported Open Type features include Stylistic alternates, proportional numbers, old style figures, small caps, subscripts and superscripts, and swashes.
Most of Nicolas Jenson book was about classical texts and religious. One of his books called De Evangelica Praeparatione. Jenson printed this book in 1470 and it was considered humanist Roman typeface that was based entirely on contemporary calligraphy.
One of a set of Optical Sizes with the fonts: Adobe Jenson Caption, Adobe Jenson Subhead and Adobe Jenson