French medieval and paleotypographic jump page, mostly edited by Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne, Paris. Marc Smith wrote Du manuscrit à la typographie numérique (Gazette du livre médiéval, no. 52-53, 2008, pp. 51-78), in which he describes the history of digital type and makes interesting comments on their roots and classification. The site is quite extensive---medievalists can spend weeks visiting links and sub-pages. PDF file.

Marc Smith also designed some typefaces, notably Piacevole (2008, a 16th century cursive map script face after J. de Beauchesne), and the "ronde" La Petite Ronde (2008, after L. Barbedor).

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type design in France ⦿ History of type ⦿ Typeface Classification ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿

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