Hoefler and Frere-Jones digital reinterpretation of Ammet Taviner's blackletter. Cut before 1492 the brass "matrices" from which this type may be the oldest set of matrices in the world.

Ammet Tavernier (ca.1522-1570) Tavernier's types differed from the French designs of Garamond and Granjon in that they were sturdier and had a larger x-height. Paving the way for the bold, though more graceful design of Van den Keere and the robustness of Dutch type in the later 17th century. 1

Master punchcutter of old style types, Van Dyck produced designs that were influenced by Garamond and other Parisian type designers of a century before. His Dutch version was more condensed and robust in weight.

Upon van Dyck's death the Elzevir printing firm* purchased his type and today a digital version is offered through the Dutch Type Library.
"In 1992, the designer Gerard Daniëls was given the task for making a revival based upon the work of Christoffel of Dijck. The objective was to make a vast family of weights, ornaments and swashes.
On the basis of several van Dijck character types Daniels reconstructed the DTL Elzevir.

Van Dyck's sturdy faces are assumed to the the basis used by William Caslon for his roman type. Historian Stanley Morison later wrote, "Although his type faces are not as important to the historian than those of Garamond, they are certainly more beautiful.

Kis was a Transylvanian protestant who, sent to Holland in the last quarter of the seventeenth century to learn printing, became one of the leading punchcutters of his time. Kis trained in Amsterdam under Dutch punchcutter Dirk Voskens (circa 1680) before returning to Transylvania to print bibles.

Kis designed an excellent book face, which was mistakenly credited to and named after Dutch printer Anton Janson. The original letterforms exhibit minor inconsistencies which contribute to the charm of the face. These design quirks were integrated into Monotype's version, digitized by Patricia Saunders and Robin Nicholas in 1985 (shown above). Janson, a beautiful and readable face, remains a favorite for classic text typography.

Shown left is a sample of the type cut by Peter de Walpergen (from The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England printed at the Oxford Press in 1701. See it larger here).
Below: Jan van Krimpen, design drawing for Sheldon, Image Link.

Elzevir Family, 17th and 18th C

As publishers and printers the Elzevir family held somewhat the same position in their time as Aldus did in his day. The Elzevirs popularized a pocket size book format and made them available at affordable prices. Their formula was highly successful, so much so that the term Elziver grew to cover all books that used small type and format.

Elzevir is also applied to type faces which have the characteristics of the Dutch open yet compact style.

For a complete story on the Elzevirs visit James Mosley's Typefounding Blog spot.

Peter de Walpergen

England was devoid of native type after the Star Chamber Act placed an almost total ban on domestic type founding for over 100 years. When the ban was lifted in 1641, Bishop John Fell, recognizing the lack of local talent, imported Dutch typefounder, Peter de Walpergen, who cut for the press a collection of fonts included in the assortment known today as The Fell Types.

"Among these was a handsome and practical set of book types cut before 1693, in the "great primer" size (roughly 14pt). These faces were among the first 'Old Styles' cast in England, and as such are an essential link between the seventeenth century Dutch Old Styles of Kis, Van Dijck and Voskens, and the eighteenth century English Old Styles of William Caslon.

Johannes Enschedé en Wonen

His firm, Enschedé and Sons, was an active type foundry from 1743 to 1991. Currently a museum is dedicated to their history at this link.

Enschedé began manufacturing type in 1743 after purchasing the foundry of Hendrik Wetstein, and the foundry soon became the most important part of Enschedé's business.

The famous punch-cutter Joan Michael Fleischman was employed there in the eighteenth century. Its type business flourished throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and in the twentieth century the foundry achieved widespread international acclaim through the design and production of types of Jan van Krimpen (1892–1958)

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Renard Concept, The Eschedé Font Foundry online, Link