The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently ...
Jean Jannon
French printer and type designer
Jean Jannon was a French Protestant printer, type designer, punchcutter and typefounder active in Sedan in the seventeenth century. He was a reasonably prolific printer by contemporary standards, printing several hundred books. Wikipedia
Born: April 1580, Geneva, Switzerland
Died: December 20, 1658 (age 78 years), Sedan, France
French protestant punchcutter and typefounder active in Sedan early in the seventeenth century.
The French punchcutter and printer Jean Jannon was born in 1580. He authored a series of Baroque romans and italics. A good deal of Jannon's original ...
The 1621 specimen of Jean Jannon : Paris & Sedan, designer & engraver of the caractères de l'Université now owned by the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.