Hash
9d8d3ef7b15c546c1efe4486d08e519c
Name
JansonTextW04-56Italic
Title
Janson Text W04 56 Italic
UniqID
JansonTextW04-56Italic
Trademark
Janson is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH.
Copyright
Part of the digitally encoded machine readable outline data for producing the Typefaces provided is copyrighted 2008 Linotype GmbH, www.linotype.com. All rights reserved. This software is the property of Linotype GmbH, and may not be reproduced, used, displayed, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype GmbH. The digitally encoded machine readable outline data for producing the Typefaces provided as part of your laser printer is copyrighted (c) 1981 Linotype Company. All rights reserved. This data is the property of Linotype Company, and may not be reproduced, used, displayed, modified, disclosed or transferred without the express written approval of Linotype Company. Janson is a trademark of Linotype Corp. registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions in the name of Linotype Corp. or its licensee Linotype GmbH. This typeface is original artwork of Linotype Design Studio. The design may be protected in certain jurisdictions.
Explanation
The Hungarian punchcutter Mikls Kis designed and cut this typeface in about 1685 while working in Amsterdam. It was not cut by Anton Janson, a Dutch punchcutter who worked in Leipzig in the seventeenth century. For many years this typeface was wrongly attributed to Janson, and the font still erroneously bears his name. Some of the Kis punches and matrices made their way to D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt in 1919. Linotype Janson was cut in 1954 under the supervision of Hermann Zapf, and was based on the original Kis punches. Prof. Horst Heiderhoff led the Linotype Design Studio in the most recent expansion of Janson in 1985. Now a versatile family of eight weights, this version of Janson Text is the most authentic digital version of the Kis types. With its legible, sturdy forms and strong stroke contrast, Janson Text has proved very successful for book and magazine text, and it continues to appear in the ranks of bestselling types.