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George William Jones (1860-1942) was a British printer and type designer of the late nineteenth and twentieth century.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Baskerville, Bernard Salomon, Chauncey H. Griffith, Claude Garamond, Dr Johnson's House, Droitwich Spa, Edward Prince, Emphasis (typography), Fine press, Frederic Goudy, Granjon, Hot metal typesetting, John Baskerville, Klingspor Museum, Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Nicolas Jenson, Northwood, London, Printer (publishing), Punchcutting, Robert Estienne, Robert Granjon, Type design, Upton-upon-Severn, Walter Tracy, Worcestershire.

  2. British printers
  3. British typographers and type designers
  4. People from Upton-upon-Severn

Baskerville

Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punchcutter John Handy.

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Bernard Salomon

Bernard Salomon (1506–1561), also known as the Little Bernard B. Gallus or Gallo, was a French painter, draftsman and engraver.

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Chauncey H. Griffith

Chauncey H. Griffith (1879–1956) was an American printer and typeface designer.

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Claude Garamond

Claude Garamont (–1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris.

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Dr Johnson's House

Dr Johnson's House is a writer's house museum in London in the former home of the 18th-century English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

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Droitwich Spa

Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich) is a historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe.

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Edward Prince

Edward Philip Prince (1846–1923) was a British engraver and punchcutter, a cutter of the punches used to stamp the matrices used to cast metal type.

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Emphasis (typography)

In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them.

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Fine press

Fine press printing and publishing comprises historical and contemporary printers and publishers publishing books and other printed matter of exceptional intrinsic quality and artistic taste, including both commercial and private presses.

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Frederic Goudy

Frederic William Goudy (March 8, 1865 – May 11, 1947) was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley.

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Granjon

Granjon is an old-style serif typeface designed by George W. Jones around 1924 for the British branch of the Linotype company, and based on the Garamond typeface that was used in a book printed by the Parisian Jean Poupy in 1592.

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In printing and typography, hot metal typesetting (also called mechanical typesetting, hot lead typesetting, hot metal, and hot type) is a technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing.

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John Baskerville

John Baskerville (baptised 28 January 1707 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and type designer.

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Klingspor Museum

The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type.

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Mergenthaler Linotype Company

The Mergenthaler Linotype Company is a corporation founded in the United States in 1886 to market the Linotype machine, a system to cast metal type in lines (linecaster) invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.

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Nicolas Jenson

Nicholas (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.

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Northwood, London

Northwood is an area in the London Borough of Hillingdon, North West London, located north-west of Charing Cross. Northwood was part of the ancient parish of Ruislip, Middlesex. The area was situated on the historic Middlesex boundary with Hertfordshire, and since being incorporated into Greater London in 1965, has been on the Greater London boundary with that county.

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Printer (publishing)

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

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Punchcutting

Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type.

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Robert Estienne

Robert I Estienne (15037 September 1559), known as Robertus Stephanus in Latin and sometimes referred to as Robert Stephens, was a 16th-century printer in Paris.

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Robert Granjon

Robert Granjon (Paris, c. 1513 - Rome, 1590) was a French punchcutter, a designer and creator of metal type, and printer.

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Type design

Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces.

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Upton-upon-Severn

Upton-upon-Severn (or Upton on Severn, etc. and locally simply Upton) is a town and civil parish in the Malvern Hills District of Worcestershire, England.

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Walter Tracy

Walter Valentine Tracy RDI (14 February 1914 – 28 April 1995) was an English type designer, typographer and writer.

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Worcestershire

Worcestershire (written abbreviation: Worcs) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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See also

British printers

British typographers and type designers

People from Upton-upon-Severn

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Jones_(printer)

Also known as Estienne (typeface), Linotype Estienne.