Janson URW Light Font

Font Name

Janson URW Light Font

Font Family

JansonJanson

Glyphs

382

Copyright

Copyright 2010 URW++ Design & Development

Price

$19.95

Description

This is URW's digitization and design of Miklós Tótfalusi Kis's classic serif Janson. 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) Tótfalusi Kis. Tótfalusi 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. Tótfalusi Kis also cut Greek and Hebrew typefaces, both for use in printing Polyglot Bibles. Janson shows strong influence of the Dutch Baroque typefaces.

OpenType

Standard, Access All Alternates, Case Sensive Forms, Denominator, Fractions, Standard Ligatures, Localized Forms, Numerator, Ordinals, Small Caps, Superscript

Posted by

URW Type Foundry GmbH

Posted on

Sep 28, 2010

Product Ranking

5205

Highest Rank Achieved

84

Licensing available

Desktop, WebFont, Mobile App & ePub