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| Typeface | Janson |
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| Category | Serif |
| Designer(s) | Chauncey H. Griffith |
| Foundry | Linotype |
| Design based on | Nicholas Kis' Roman of 1685 |
Janson is the name given to an old-style serif typeface named for Dutch punch-cutter and printer Anton Janson. Research in the 1970s and early 1980s, however, concluded that the typeface was the work of a Hungarian punch-cutter named Miklós (Nicholas) Kis. Kis traveled to Amsterdam in 1680 to apprentice under Dirk Voskens and cut several typeface while working under Voskens, producing a roman text face c. 1685 upon which present-day Janson is based. Kis also cut Greek and Hebrew typefaces, both for use in printing polyglot bibles. Janson shows strong influence of the Dutch Baroque typefaces.
A revival of the face was designed in 1937 by Chauncey H. Griffith of the Linotype foundry.
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