In 1716, he started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels and as a bookbinder's tool cutter. His typefaces transformed English type design and first established an English national typographic style.Ĭaslon was born in Cradley, Worcestershire in 1692 and trained as an engraver in nearby Birmingham. The distinction and legibility of his type secured him the patronage of the leading printers of the day in England and the continent. William Caslon I (1692 – 1766), also known as William Caslon the Elder, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He is recognised to this day for the elegance of his typefaces William Caslon Garamond is now considered one of the leading type designers of all time. He worked in the tradition of what is now called old-style serif letter design, that produced letters with a relatively organic structure resembling handwriting with a pen but with a slightly more structured and upright design. Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. Claude GaramontĬlaude Garamont (1510 – 1561), known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punchcutter based in Paris. Jenson is an important figure in the early history of printing and a pivotal force in the emergence of Venice as one of the first great centres of the printing press. Nicholas Jenson has been something of an iconic figure among students of early printing since the nineteenth century, when the aesthete William Morris praised the beauty and perfection of his Roman font. Jenson acted as Master of the French Royal Mint at Tours, and is credited with being the creator of one of the finest early Roman typefaces. Nicholas Jenson (1420 – 1480) was a French engraver, pioneer, printer and type designer who carried out most of his work in Venice, Italy. A Brief History of Type A Brief History of Type Part 1 – The Pioneers of European Type Design
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