![]() ![]() It's not often that a designer get their name on their work, but Marcel Jacno was identified on the cover of millions of cigarette packages. Jenson, Caslon, Fleishmann, Fournier and Baskerville In 1956 he organized a system to classify type faces into 10 categories based on the form of the serifs. (Microgramma and Eurostile, Recta, Novarese, Metropol, ITC Symbol to name a few). In 1967 this system was also adopted by the British Standards Classification of Typefaces (BS 2961:1967).Ĭurrently ATYPI has formed a special interest group Type Classification "to discuss, document and critique different typeface classification systems in terms of both existing systems and of new proposals but not limited to the Vox-Atypi system."Īldo Novarese, an Italian type designer in the mid-20th century, designed over 200 typefaces. Vox's system was expanded to eleven classes (by adding Fraktur and nonLatin faces) before it was adopted in 1962 by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). The Vox-ATypI classification defines archetypes of typefaces, but in fact a typeface can easily exhibit the characteristics of more than one class. In his 1954, Defense and Illustration de la lettre, Vox attempted to classify type into nine styles based on a number of formal criteria: downstroke and upstroke, forms of serifs, stroke axis, x-height, etc. He expanded on the Thibeaudeau system by further refining the Elzevir* group into Humanes, Garaldes, Réales and by dividing Thibeaudeau's writing category into manual and script. ![]() Vox, (his real name, Samuel William Théodore Monod) was a designer, journalist, art critic and type historian. Thibeaudeau authored two texts on typography, Letters of the Printing Works (1921) and The French Handbook of Modern Typography (1924). His method, based upon the shape of the 'footings' (serifs) of the letter, was amended to include a category of Écritures (scripts) and Fantasy (for "advertising or novelty characters). Thibaudeau was a French typographer who began categorizing type into a system while working on font catalogs for foundries Renault & Marcou and Peignot & Cie. How to Classify all of these Thousands of Faces? The Vox-ATypI Classification and its PredecessorsĬurrent TYPI Classes from Théorie, Design, Graphique 3 ![]()
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