Janson® Text

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What is the Janson® Text font?

A faithful recreation of one of the great seventeenth-century Dutch typefaces cut by the Protestant Transylvanian Nicolas Kis. The matrices survive at Stempel; their value was recognized by Chauncey Griffith at Mergenthaler Linotype, who used Kis’ 14 point to undertake the revival for composing machines while following a Voskens italic better suited to the Linotype than the Kis italics. George Ostrochulski adapted the face for photocomposition at Mergenthaler, returning to the original italics.

Janson® Text Font families

The Janson® Text includes the following font families:

Janson Text Pro 55 Roman
Janson Text Pro 56 Italic
Janson Text Pro 75 Bold
Janson Text Pro 76 Bold Italic
Janson Text Std 55 Roman
Janson Text Std 56 Italic
Janson Text Std 75 Bold
Janson Text Std 76 Bold Italic

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