@crideaukikuchi@social.sciences.re
Post #2597582
2026-03-26 21:56 UTC
@chaprot@pouet.chapril.org @dobody@mastodon.design Some fonts were lent or sold. Nicolas Jenson's for exemple were used throughout Europe for a century. I think Amerbach specialised in lending his types or selling characters made with his matrices.
These types were known for their quality, so that's why there was a high demand, but I guess it could also be so for non-latin fonts, which were very expensive to make from scratch.
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@dobody@mastodon.design 2026-03-27 10:09
@crideaukikuchi@social.sciences.re Thank you!! I'm fairly sure a typeface market existed in Russian Emp. during Peter the Great's time, easier to imagine considering his script reform. Struggling to find sources on Cyrillic Uncials and Slavonic & later Bulgarian type though. Almost seems like the Ustav uncial style letterforms barely varied across generations. Might you have more insight on where I should dig for info on Cyrillic type & Eastern European printing? @chaprot@pouet.chapril.org