JJannon
JJannon Display
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Queen
Queen
Queen
Queen
Westworld
Verve
Westworld
Verve
zoro
zoro
0123456789
0123456789
3/4 3/8 5/8 7/8
3/4 3/8 5/8 7/8
H0123456789()[]
Habcdefghijklmn
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H0123456789()[]
Habcdefghijklmn
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H0123456789()[]
Habcdefghijklmn
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H0123456789()[]
Habcdefghijklmn
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Habcdefghijklmn
Hopqrstuvwxyz()[]
Habcdefghijklmn
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Habcdefghijklmno
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The project blasted
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LETTER
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The project blasted
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LETTER
Koolhaas
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museum
Koolhaas
issue
museum
s
ss si ssi sl ssl sb sk sp st
s
ss si ssi sl ssl sb sk sp st
abcdefghijklmn
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ABCDEFGHIJK
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ABCDEFGHIJK
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A B C D E F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Y Z
Jean & Jannon
Jean & Jannon
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Character Map
Uppercases
Swashes [italics only]
Small Caps
Accented Uppercases
Accented Lowercases
Accented Small Caps
Small Caps + Stylistic Alternates [italics only]
Lowercases
Accented Swashes [italics only]
Stylistic Alternates
Stylistic Alternates [italics only]
Standard Ligatures
Discretionary Ligatures
Discretionary Ligatures [italics only]
Historical Ligatures
Punctuation
Lining Figures
Oldstyle Figures
Slashed Zero
Numerators
Denominators
Superscripts/Superiors
Subscripts/Inferiors
Prebuilt Fractions
Symbols
Mathematical Symbols
Currencies
Arrows
Ordinals
About
François Rappo revives the work of Jean Jannon through this meticulous study of a quintessential seventeenth-century French type. JJannon’s letters reflect the sense of grandeur and attention to detail that defined the Baroque era.
Swiss-born, Jean Jannon worked at the Estienne printing atelier in Paris before escaping to Sedan, France to flee the Protestant Reformation. He then found employment as a printer for the Calvinist Academy where he began to cut his own letters. In 1641, he received a commission from the Imprimerie Royale in Paris, a project from which Caractères de l’Université originated. For nearly three hundred years, Jannon’s letters were misattributed to Claude Garamond. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that the eminent scholar Beatrice Warde would rectify this inaccuracy.
This contemporary version of JJannon highlights this historical saga. Rappo masterfully reinvigorates its distinctive elegance and sharpness by preserving the asymmetrical axis, the small inclined bowl of the “a,” and the detailed cupped serifs from the original drawings.