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    Pierre-Simon Fournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician. He was...
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  • furnarius. Fournier may refer to: Alain Fournier, computer graphics researcher Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier), French writer Alphonse Fournier (1893–1961)...
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  • Fournier is the name commonly applied to typefaces which are based on the typefaces of Parisian typefounder Pierre-Simon Fournier around the 1740s. Created...
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    Pierre Simon Fournier's (1712–1768), but Didot modified Fournier's by adjusting the base unit precisely to a French Royal inch (pouce), as Fournier's unit...
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    cited as exactly 0.188 mm. The Fournier point was established by Pierre Simon Fournier in 1737.: 60–66  The system of Fournier was based on a different French...
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    printer, and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more modelled...
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  • include early on the "romain du roi" in France, then the work of Pierre Simon Fournier in France, Fleischman and Rosart in the Low Countries, Pradell in Spain...
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    Matthew Carter in 1987 for Bitstream Inc. Charter is based on Pierre-Simon Fournier’s characters, originating from the 18th century. Classified by Bitstream...
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  • Pierre Fournier (1906–1986) was a French cellist. Pierre Fournier may also refer to: Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), French typographer and printer...
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    Open Font License. The typeface is inspired by the forms of Pierre Simon Fournier and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family. It is available...
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  • philosopher Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), a French typographer Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), a French mathematician and engineer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)...
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    market with high-quality typefaces cut in the previous century; Pierre-Simon Fournier commented that knowledge of the technique in France degenerated after...
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  • elements, a style that influenced the Transitional typefaces of Pierre Simon Fournier and John Baskerville. The letterforms were the work of the Royal Academy's...
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    which was inspired by the types of 18th-century punch-cutter Pierre-Simon Fournier. Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic...
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    Baskerville and studied in detail the designs of French type founders Pierre Simon Fournier and Firmin Didot. Although he drew inspiration from the work of these...
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  • Nicolas Cochin Simon de Colines Firmin Didot François Didot François-Ambroise Didot Henri Didot Pierre Didot Roger Excoffon Pierre Simon Fournier Claude Garamond...
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    imitated, at least not his style of type design), notably by Pierre Simon Fournier, Giambattista Bodoni and Benjamin Franklin (who had started his career...
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    Chrétien cooperated with the artist Jean-Baptiste Fouquet, and Jean Simon Fournier. Chrétien's workshop was taken over by Edme Bouchardy. In 1802, John...
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  • Pierre Simon Fournier of France, was the first point system to be proposed. However it was not widely known. Hawks was not aware of Fournier's work when...
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  • Didot. Floride (1939, Imre Reiner) Fournier-le Jeune (1913) Based on the decorated letters of Pierre Simon Fournier. Française-allongée (George Auriol)...
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    taste" (goût hollandois), a term originating from the writings of Pierre Simon Fournier in the next century. Kis is considered to have been one of the most...
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  • Men's Giant Slalom winners: Simon Fournier (#1) / Bridger Gile (#2) Men's Slalom winners: Cooper Puckett (#1) / Simon Fournier (#2) December 13 – 16, 2023:...
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    the romain du roi type of the previous century, the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier in Paris, Fleischmann in Amsterdam and the Baskerville type of John...
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  • Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique Georg Simon Löhlein...
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    last quarter of the 18th century. Renowned French punchcutter Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), confessed to having copied Fleischmann's design, and was...
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  • Switzerland Aurélien Falquet Lock Switzerland Antoine Fanost Wing France Simon Fournier Flanker France Rafael Fürbringer Flanker Switzerland Andre Pharaony...
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  • (as above) Fournier roman and italic, based on the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier Barbou Roman, based on the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier Baskerville...
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  • acquires his own printing press in Glasgow. The French typefounder Pierre Simon Fournier's Modèles des Caractères presents his system of point sizes for typography...
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    A physiognotrace made by Jean Simon Fournier around 1800...
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    monoline serifs make it look somewhat similar to the typefaces of Pierre-Simon Fournier in the eighteenth century, and it is for this reason that it is generally...
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