Microscopique
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 microscopique is a font size . It is the second smallest font size ever cast in lead type and has a cone height of two and a half Didot points , which corresponds to 0.94 mm.
It was cut in 1827 by the 65-year-old Parisian die cutter and type caster Henri Didot and cast on a cone of two and a half points. This made its cone significantly smaller than the smallest hand typesetting Non Plus Ultra , which actually represented a two-point font in terms of typeface, but was poured onto a four-point cone.
The microscopique was used in the works of Horace and the maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld .
See also
literature
- Carl August Franke: Catechism of the book printing art . Weber publishing house, 1872.
- Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters . 2nd Edition. Klimsch & Co publishing house, 1905.