Roman type
• Roman type, meanwhile, accounts for 20% of
all the types used in incunabula. This type
arose from humanism in the Italian
Renaissance, which aimed at the revival of
ancient Roman cultural styles.
Roman Type
Roman type was first used by two
Germans, C. Sweynheym and A.
Pannartz, when they printed
Cicero's De oratore in Subiaco, a village
in the suburbs of Rome, in 1465. Since
the type used at that time still
retained a Gothic flavor , it is also called
"gotico-antiqua."
Roman type
• The type which is similar to today's Roman type
was first designed by two brothers, Johannes and
Vindelinus de Spira of Venice, who obtained the
five-year sole right to use it in 1469.
• However, first Johannes and then Vindelinus died
the following year, and a different version was
created based on their type.
• This type, also called "Venetian," is renowned for
its beautiful face, and thus became the model for
the subsequent Italian typefaces.
Roman type
• In 1496, Aldus Manutius of Venice printed P.
Bembo's De Aetna dialogues using a New
Roman Typeface which had a stronger
contrast between its lines than the Venetian
type. This kind of type was named "old face,"
and came into wide use in the 16
th
century .
• The typeface designed by C. Garamond
(c.1500-61) was used by many famous
printers.
• At the beginning of the 18
th
century, G. Bodoni
(1740-1813), F.A. Didot (1730-1804) and
others refined the design of Roman type,
which was named "modern face."
Roman Type
In the early 16
th
century, the above-mentioned Aldus Manutius published
a series of Roman classics and other
works in Octavo in which he used the
slanted typeface similar to the cursive
script used in manuscripts. This
typeface has come to be called "italic"
type.
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