Geometrically Constructed Letterforms

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Geometrically Constructed Letterforms Early type designers attempted to find special relationships between the proportions of the letters and the shape and dimension of the human body. Such geometrically constructed letterforms became popular in the 15th and 16th centuries. The main proponents of this movement were Nicollo Niccoli (1420, a Florentine humanist), Geofroy Tory (1529, famous for his "Champs Fleury" publication), Felice Feliciano (1463, a Veronese calligrapher, printer and scholar), Albrecht Dürer (1523), Luca Pacioli (1509), Francesco Torniello (1517), Giovanbattista Palatino (1550), Wolgang Fugger (1553, see his Handwriting Manual), and the French Academics for Louis XIV (1692).	EXTERNAL LINKS Geometrically Constructed Letterforms MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS History of type ⦿ Codex-like fonts ⦿

file name: Matthew Desmond Pacioli 2007 after Luca Pacioli 1509

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