Borgis
Non Plus Ultra (2 point)
Microscopique (2.5 points)
Brilliant (3 point)
Diamond (4 point)
Pearl (5 point)
Nonpareille (6 points)
Insertio (6.5 points)
Colonel (7 point)
Petit (8 point)
Borgis (9 point)
Body (10 point)
Rhinelander (11 points)
Cicero (12 point)
Medium (14 points)
Tertia (16 point)
Paragon (18 points)
Text (20 points)
Canon (36 points)
Concordance (48 points)
Sabon (60 points)
The Borgis is a font size in lead type with a cone height of nine Didot points , which corresponds to 3.384 mm. The equivalent in nine DTP points measures 3.175 mm.
The name Borgis or Bourgeois comes from French and means "the bourgeois". It is said to have got its name from the famous French printer Geofroy Tory , who printed small but neat books for the "commoners" in this font size. The font size itself is first found in a book from Venice in 1498 . Only in exceptional cases was the font size poured onto a nine-point cone. Mostly a ten-point cone was used and an additional signature was added to avoid confusion.
In many European countries, font sizes have different names or the same names denote different cone heights. Fonts of this size are called Petit Romain in France , Garmond in Holland , Bourgeois in England , Breviario in Spain and Gagliarda in Italy .
See also
literature
- Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters. 2nd Edition. Klimsch & Co publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 1905.
- J. Bass: The book printer book. Heinrich Plesken Publishing House, 1930.
- Fritz Genzmer, Walther Grossmann: The Setter's Book. Gutenberg Publishing House, Berlin 1939.