Petit (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 petit is a font size in lead type with a cone height of eight Didot points , which corresponds to 3.008 mm. The equivalent in eight DTP points measures 2.822 mm.

The name Petit means "small". Until the 18th century it was the smallest font size available in most print shops. In ancient texts it was called Jungfer or Jungfrawschrift .

In addition to the corpus or Garmond (10 point), this was the most commonly used font size.

In many European countries, font sizes have different names or the same names denote different cone heights. Fonts of this size are called Gaillarde in France , Galjard in Holland , Breviary in England , Gallarda in Spain and Testino in Italy .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Bauer: Handbook for typesetters , Verlag Klimsch & Co, second edition 1905
  • J. Bass: Das Buchdrucker-Buch , Verlag Heinrich Plesken, 1930
  • Fritz Genzmer, Walther Großmann: The typesetter's book , Gutenberg Berlin publishing house, 1939
  • Leo Davidshofer, Walter Zerbe: Typesetting technology and design , Bildungsverband Schweizerischer Buchdrucker, 1961