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    (or Nicolas) Jenson (c. 1420–1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. Jenson acted...
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  • Jenson may refer to: Jenson (name), people with the surname or given name. Adobe Jenson, a typeface based on the work of printer Nicolas Jenson Jens (disambiguation)...
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    by Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470, and its italics are based on those created by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi fifty years later. Jenson is an...
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    designer Bruce Rogers, based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson around 1470. He used it for his design of the Oxford Lectern Bible....
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    typefaces designed between 1470 and 1600 AD, specifically those by Nicolas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned by Aldus Manutius and cut by Francesco...
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    designed by Tobias Frere-Jones. It is loosely based on the printing of Nicolas Jenson in Venice in the 1470s, in what is now called the "old style" of serif...
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    would now be considered blackletter. Printers and typefounders such as Nicolas Jenson and Aldus Manutius in Venice and later Robert Estienne in France codified...
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  • often a relatively dark colour on the page. In modern times, that of Nicolas Jenson has been the most admired, with many revivals. Garaldes, which tend...
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  • educator Dan Jenson (born 1975), Australian professional squash player Mary Goodrich Jenson (1907–2004), American aviator and journalist Nicolas Jenson (1420–1480)...
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    Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver currently competing in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship with...
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    typeface named "ITRL", based on the work of Renaissance typographer Nicolas Jenson, was specially designed for the series. The books are notable for their...
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    "old-style" serif face, based on type designed by engraver and printer Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470. It is named for the Golden Legend, which was...
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    work from most of the earlier "Venetian" tradition of roman type by Nicolas Jenson and others is the now-normal horizontal cross-stroke of the "e", a letterform...
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  • Praeparatio was made by George of Trebizond and printed at Venice by Nicolas Jenson in 1470. The Jesuit François Viger also translated the text into Latin...
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    Type Founders from around 1913. It is loosely based on the printing of Nicolas Jenson in Venice in the 1470s, in what is now called the "old style" of serif...
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    The capital letters of Doves Type were based on typefaces used by Nicolas Jenson from the 1470s and the lowercase letters were based on typefaces used...
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    brothers Johann and Wendelin of Speyer (de Spira), and the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson. The sequence of appearance and production dates for types used by these...
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    called the 'Venetian' style of typeface design, used by printers such as Nicolas Jenson up to the 1490s. Intended for fine book printing, the design has a delicate...
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    In addition to the German community, the French community, led by Nicolas Jenson, also owned most of the Venetian printing presses towards the end of...
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  • font, designed by Sol Hess for Lanston Monotype based on designs of Nicolas Jenson from 1479. It was released in 1920 with a companion italic made available...
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    chancery hand in Venice, 1501, and was practised by designer-printers Nicolas Jenson and Francesco Griffo; roman type has helped establish the remarkable...
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    Johann Amerbach of Basel, William Caxton of Bruges and London, and Nicolas Jenson of Venice. The first incunable to have woodcut illustrations was Ulrich...
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    typographic and printing activity. Significant contributions came from Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo, Aldus Manutius, and other printers of late 15th-century...
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  • typefaces created during the 15th century by Venetian printers, such as Nicolas Jenson (hence another name for these, 'Venetian'). These typefaces sought to...
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  • noble (d. 1488) date unknown Jean Fouquet, French painter (d. 1481) Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (d. 1480) Antoinette de Maignelais, mistress of Charles...
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    series Cloister Old Style (1913), based on the 1470 Venetian face of Nicolas Jenson. Cloister Italic (1913), based on the 1501 italic face of Aldus Manutius...
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  • – Niccolò Perotti, Italian humanist scholar (b. 1429) date unknown Nicolas Jenson, French engraver (b. 1420) Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Portuguese explorer...
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  • abstraction from calligraphy not present in the work of the earlier master Nicolas Jenson, while his italic and Greek types are notably cursive. Philip B. Meggs...
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  • Simon Fournier Claude Garamond (Garamond) Robert Granjon Hector Guimard Nicolas Jenson Christophe Plantin Jean-François Porchez Jacques Sabon Wynkyn de Worde...
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    inspired by a font used in Pliny's Historicae naturalis published by Nicolas Jenson and a similar font that Jacobus Rubeus used in publishing Historiae...
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