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Gerardus Mercator
Flemish cartographer, b. Rupelmonde (as Gheert Cremer), 1512-1594. Educated at the University of Leuven, the alma mater of Luc Devroye, he lived in Duisburg (now Germany) from 1552 and is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him. Author of Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas cursorias que vocant, scribendarum ratio (1540), which contains some beautiful alphabets, and teaches cursive writing [see Cursiv Latein]. Digital mapmaking fonts based on Mercator's chancery hand include Mercator (1995, Arthur Baker; see also the P22 version from 2001), and Ribbon Cursive (2009, Natsuko Hayashida). A scan of his 1540 book led Gilles Le Corré to 1540 Mercator Script (2010). A full scan of Gerardus Mercator's 1595 cosmographic atlas. Portrait. View typefaces related to Mercator. A list of typefaces related to Mercator. More typefaces based on Mercator's chancery hand. |
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file name: Mercator Cursiv Latein
file name: Natsuko Hayashida Ribbon Cursive 2009
file name: Arthur Baker Mercator 2001
file name: Arthur Baker Mercator 2001b
file name: Arthur Baker Mercator 1995 108934
file name: Arthur Baker Mercator 1995 128056
file name: Gilles Le Corre 1540 Mercator Script 2010
file name: Gilles Le Corre 1540 Mercator Script 2010b
file name: Mercator Map Flanders 1567
file name: Mercator
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