Non Plus Ultra (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)

Non Plus Ultra or Quarter Petit is a font size . In lead type it is the smallest font size ever cast and would have a regular cone height of two Didot points , which corresponds to 0.752 mm.

The font was produced in the Enschedé type foundry in Haarlem ( Holland ). Since such a small font to pour hard and even less hand- set was, you produced the tiny typeface on a 2 1 / 2  -point cone (that is 0.94 mm thick).

In terms of typesetting, the typeface had little value because of its delicacy; it was just one example of the highest technical performance.

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters . Verlag Klimsch & Co, second edition 1905

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.