Lactantius typeface ????
Lactantius typeface ????
Hello just Reading wikipedia, but i remember it also being mentioned in, Roxane Juberts “Typography and Graphic design from Antiquity to the Present” im just wondering what it looks like..i tried searching the internet to no prevail and no one seemes to have mentioned it on here before!! ok cheers.
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3.Feb.2008 7.28am
I wonder if this is close. I found that Conrad Sweynheym published the “Opera” of Lactintius. Then the linked article claims this typeface was “the first truly Roman typeface”, and was designed by him in 1468.
[edit: ’Opera’ is plural of ’opus’ which means ’work’, as I understand it.]
- Mike Yanega
3.Feb.2008 10.47pm
Sweynheym and Pannartz printed Lactantius twice (1465 in Subiaco, 1468 in Rome) using two different typeface. The latter is something like this or Mike’s link, while the former has more gothic features. I can’t find any picture on Google.
3.Feb.2008 11.36pm
Here it is.
6.Feb.2008 1.34pm
cool cheers guys for your help!
TYPOGRAPHY !!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Webber ISTD
www.dexter121uk.devaiantart.com