Pierre-Simon Fournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician. He was both a collector and originator of types. Fournier's contributions to printing were his creation of initials and ornaments, his design of letters, and his standardization of type sizes. He worked in the rococo form, and designed typefaces including Fournier and Narcissus.[1] He was known for incorporating ‘decorative typographic ornaments’[2] into his typefaces. Fournier's main accomplishment is that he ‘created a standardized measuring system that would revolutionize the typography industry forever’.[3]
He was also known as Fournier le Jeune ("the younger") to distinguish him from his father Jean Claude, who was also in the typesetting industry. In his early life, Fournier studied watercolour with J. B. G. Colson, and later wood engraving. In 1737, Fournier published his first theoretical work, on the minimum spacing between letters while still retaining readability.
Pierre-SimonFournier (15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder and typographic theoretician. He was...
Pierre Nicolas Fournier, French botanist Evan Fournier (born 1992), French basketball player in the National Basketball Association Francine Fournier...
Fournier is the name commonly applied to typefaces which are based on the typefaces of Parisian typefounder Pierre-SimonFournier around the 1740s. Created...
Matthew Carter in 1987 for Bitstream Inc. Charter is based on Pierre-SimonFournier’s characters, originating from the 18th century. Classified by Bitstream...
printer, and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of PierreSimonFournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more modelled...
SIL Open Font License. The typeface is inspired by the forms of PierreSimonFournier and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family. It is available...
include early on the "romain du roi" in France, then the work of PierreSimonFournier in France, Fleischman and Rosart in the Low Countries, Pradell in...
elements, a style that influenced the Transitional typefaces of PierreSimonFournier and John Baskerville. The letterforms were the work of the Royal...
market with high-quality typefaces cut in the previous century; Pierre-SimonFournier commented that knowledge of the technique in France degenerated...
face, which was inspired by the types of 18th-century punch-cutter Pierre-SimonFournier. Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography:...
Nicolas Cochin Simon de Colines Firmin Didot François Didot François-Ambroise Didot Henri Didot Pierre Didot Roger Excoffon PierreSimonFournier Claude Garamond...
Baskerville and studied in detail the designs of French type founders PierreSimonFournier and Firmin Didot. Although he drew inspiration from the work of...
by PierreSimonFournier of France, was the first point system to be proposed. However it was not widely known. Hawks was not aware of Fournier's work...
taste" (goût hollandois), a term originating from the writings of PierreSimonFournier in the next century. Kis is considered to have been one of the most...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (died 1778) September 15 – PierreSimonFournier, French typographer (died 1768) November 1 – Antonio Genovesi, Italian...
Martin-Dominique Fertel. In 1737, French engraver and typecaster Pierre-SimonFournier (called Fournier the young) invented a tool in the shape of a square that...
directly imitated, at least not his style of type design), notably by PierreSimonFournier, Giambattista Bodoni and Benjamin Franklin (who had started his...
acquires his own printing press in Glasgow. The French typefounder PierreSimonFournier's Modèles des Caractères presents his system of point sizes for typography...
this year) Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello PierreSimonFournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des...
Hallé (1711–1781), painter and engraver Pierre-SimonFournier (1712–1768), engraver Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789), painter, engraver, draughtsman...
director. He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged...
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