Jenson, N.

Japanese: Jenson,N.(英語表記)JensonN
Jenson, N.

...This is why the early typefaces created by Gutenberg were the same as the "black letters" written by scribes at the time. Meanwhile, in Florence, Italy, the center of the Renaissance, a new, bright and easy-to-read typeface was adopted to replace the "black letters" that were a relic of the feudal Middle Ages, and on this basis, Nicolas Jenson (1420-80) perfected the Roman typeface in Venice around 1470. Since then, improvements to Roman typefaces have been made, and from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, the foundations of modern Roman typefaces were laid by the excellent techniques of the Didot family of France and Caveliere Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813) of Italy.

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…グーテンベルクの作った初期の活字が,当時の写字師が書いた〈黒い文字black letter〉そのままの字体であったのもそのためである。一方,ルネサンスの中心地イタリアのフィレンツェでは,中世封建時代の遺物である〈黒い文字〉に代わって,明るく読みやすい新字体が採用され,これを土台にして1470年ころベネチアでジェンソンNicolas Jenson(1420‐80)によってローマン体が完成された。以後もローマン書体の改良が進められ,18世紀の末期から19世紀の初期には,フランスのディド一家,イタリアのボドニCaveliere Giambattista Bodoni(1740‐1813)らの優れた技術によってモダンローマン書体の基礎が作られた。…

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