grecs du roi

alternative Grecs du Roi · alternative Grecs du roi

1. pluralplural onlymediaAn influential Greek miniscule typeface commissioned by King Francis I of France, cut by Claude Garamond based on the handwriting of Angelos Vergecios, and produced in three sizes.

   Vergecio's hand became in turn the model for the grecs du roi, themselves the model by which Greek type was measured for almost three hundred years.

   1992, Nicolas Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century, page 2

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   Garamond's caractères de l'Université, in four sizes of roman and italic, and the grecs du roi in three sizes, became the nucleus of the magnificent collection of types now belonging to the Imprimerie Nationale de France.

   1922, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals, page 236

   In Paris, the Grecs du Roi had been celebrated ever since they had been cut by Claude Garamond in the mid-sixteenth century; but they remained privileged types, restricted for the use of the Imprimerie Royale.

   1992, David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 2, Scholarship and Commerce, 1698-1872, page 66

1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of grecs du roi.

1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of Grecs du roi.