Diamond (font size)

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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 diamond or semi-petite is a font size . It is one of the smallest font sizes ever cast in lead type and has a cone height of four Didot points , which corresponds to 1.504 mm.

The names diamond for a four-point cone and brilliant for a three-point cone indicate the high value and the craftsmanship of this fine work. A diamond font was first cut in 1700 by the stamp cutter Voskens in Amsterdam. Van Dijk, the type founder Daniel Elzeviers, had already created a font that was only slightly larger in 1681. In order to be able to use these small typefaces economically by hand, they were often poured onto six-point cones .

In many European countries, font sizes have different names or the same names denote different cone heights. Fonts of this size are called Sédanoise in France , Diamant in Holland , Brilliant in England , Perla in Spain and Italy .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters . 2nd revised edition. Klimsch & Co., Frankfurt am Main 1905, ( Klimsch's Graphic Library 8).
  • J. Bass: The book printer book. Handbook for printers and allied trades . Heinrich Plesken, Stuttgart 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Trapp : Small manual of the dimensions, numbers, weights and the time calculation. Weltbildverlag GmbH, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-249-6 , p. 268.