| Date: 1682 Designer:
Miklos Kis Foundry:
Stempel / Linotype / Monotype Location:
Amsterdam, Holland Current equivalent:
Linotype Janson Text See also:
MT Ehrhardt (shown above),
FB Kis Technologies:
Metal (foundry)
Metal (machine)
Photosetting
Postscript |
| Famous for:
Early Dutch transitional face. Applications: Book Publishing & General Purpose Text Setting
Ubiquity:
Average use
Category:
Transitional Roman
Stress: Angled
Serifs: Oblique | | Design history:
This type is a Dutch style of the transitional, similar to Fleischmann's roman in some respects. Like Jean Jannon, Kis' work was misattributed and later revived under other names; Monotype Erhardt is named after the German foundry in which his type matrices were found, while Janson Text is named after Kis' contemporary, the Dutch punch cutter Anton Janson. Linotype revived this face twice, firstly under the supervision of Hermann Zapf, for metal composition machine setting in 1954, and more recently, under the supervision of Adrian Frutiger in 1985, when the face was digitised for the postscript library. Both Janson and MT Erhardt are available in two weights with non-lining numerals and proper small caps. | |  | |  |
