We will discuss these six faces.
Cloister Oldstyle.—Use in American printing of a standard type-face based on the Roman letter cut by Nicholas Jenson about 1470 has been retarded by the fact that typefounders in this country some years ago used as a model Morris’s interpretation of the Jenson face instead of going direct to the original letter. Jenson’s face had been copied by Bruce Rogers, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Frederic W. Goudy and others, and the fonts used privately, but for general use it was not until 1914 that a creditable copy of the face was made available by the good judgment displayed by the American Type Founders Company in bringing out Cloister Oldstyle. This is probably the best rendition of the spirit of an old Roman type-face that a modern type foundry has made. If there is a fault, it is that the lower-case letters set a trifle too close.
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Type-face used in Italy by Sweinheim and Pannartz in 1465. From De Vinne
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The Roman types of John and Wendelin of Spires, Venice, 1469. Greek letters were to be written in the line now half blank. From the original in Typographic Library and Museum, Jersey City, N. J.
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The beautiful “White Letter” Roman type-face of Nicholas Jenson, 1470, from “Eusebius,” the first book printed by him at Venice. The dot over the “i,” small and slightly to the right, is found, also, in the manuscript specimen here inserted. From the original in the Typographic Library and Museum, Jersey City, N. J.
