Medium (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 middle is a medium font size in lead type with a cone height of 14 Didot points , which corresponds to 5.264 mm. The equivalent in 14 DTP points measures 4.939 mm. The double center has the size of two center cones, i.e. 28 Didot points, that is 10.528 mm, or 28 DTP points, that is 9.878 mm.

The name Mittel is derived from the middle position of the seven letter sizes used in earlier printing works. There was Petit (8 points) as the smallest font, then Corpus (10 points), Cicero (12 points), Mittel (14 points), Tertia (16 points), Text (20 points) and Canon (36 points). “Tertia” was “the third”, counted down from the top, and “Text” used to be called “Secunda”, meaning “the second”.

In many European countries, font sizes have different names or the same names denote different cone heights. Medium- sized fonts are called Gros-Texte in France , Groote Augustijn or Dubbel Kolonel in Holland , English in England , Texto in Spain and Silvio in Italy . The double means is called the Petit Canon in France , the Small Canon in the Netherlands , Twoline English in England , Petit Cánon in Spain and Canonicino in Italy .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters . Second edition. Verlag Klimsch & Co, Frankfurt am Main 1905, ( Klimsch's Graphical Library 8).
  • J. Bass: The book printer book. Handbook for printers and allied trades . Heinrich Plesken publishing house, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Fritz Genzmer, Walther Grossmann: The Setter's Book . 3. Edition. Gutenberg Publishing House, Berlin 1939.