Sabon
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 Sabon is a measure of a font size with a cone height of five Cicero , which corresponds to 60 Didot points , i.e. 22.56 mm. The equivalent in 60 DTP points , i.e. five pica , measures 21.1 6 mm , see size comparison below.
The measure was named after Jacques Sabon , who is said to have cut a font of this size around 1590.
Sabon is also the name of a printing type created by Jan Tschichold .
size
| Sabon | Sabon |
| 60 point | 60 DTP points |
With larger font sizes, however, the names and information are uncertain and often contradictory.
According to another source, the proportions are therefore:
| Small sabon | = | 5 1 ⁄ 2 cicero | = | 66 typographic points | = | 24.820 millimeters |
| Sabon | = | 6 Cicero | = | 72 typographic points | = | 27.077 millimeters |
| Coarse sabon | = | 7 Cicero | = | 84 typographic points | = | 31,589 millimeters |
literature
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim u. a. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 261.
Web links
Wikisource: Sabon - Article of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-LexikonIndividual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Trapp : Small manual of the dimensions, numbers, weights and the time calculation. Weltbildverlag GmbH, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-249-6 , p. 268