Matthew Carter
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Matthew Carter is an English-born American type designer. A 2005 New Yorker profile described him as 'the most widely read man in the world' by considering the amount of text set in his commonly used
Carter in 2018
Carter showing his DTL Flamande typeface, circa 1986
Robert Granjon
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Robert Granjon was a French punchcutter, a designer and creator of metal type, and printer. He worked in Paris, Lyon, Antwerp, and Rome. He is best known for having introduced the typeface style Civil
Evangelium Sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Arabic, 1590, with Arabic types of Robert Grandjon, Typographia Medicea, Rome.
Roman type on Plantin's specimen of c. 1585
Italic and Greek types
Italic capitals by Granjon with swash alternate characters