Post #2700025
2023-06-20 18:58 UTC
This new typeface is named after the indomitable 17th century businesswoman, author and head of the largest printing business in the world. Martina was Christophe Plantin’s daughter and married his apprentice Jan Moretus. At five years old she was proofing texts in her father’s printshop — by 25 she was running it.
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@klim@typo.social 2023-06-20 19:01
Martina Plantin inspired a lineage of strong, emancipated women who managed the Plantin-Moretus printing house for the next 300 years. She helped lay the foundations of the Plantin-Moretus archives, embodying the true definition of curator.