catalogo tipo

MEDIDAS TIPOGRÁFICAS
1 pt = 0.0352777778 cm
ORIGINAL
Prior to 1737, little standardisation existed in the sizes of printing types and typefounders cast types to their own sizes and dimensions. Inthis year, the Parisian typefounder pierre simon fournier introduced a new system that he derived from dividing two inches of the pre-metric French foot into one hundred and forty-four equal parts.Fournier gave the resulting unit a name – ‘points’ – and they measured 0.137 of the English inch, which is close to the present point system. Around 1780, after the death of Fournier, françois ambrosedidot further developed the ‘point’ system so that is became based on the legal French foot measure. The Didot point measured 0.148 of the English inch and became the dominant system of typemeasurement throughout continental Europe, its former colonies, and Latin America. Although Didot’s system became widely used, it never gained favour in Britain and North America and it wasn’t until the late19th Century that standardisation, in the form of the American point system, became adopted by British typefounders. Although many of the old English names for type bodies have disappeared, Pica andNonpareil are still commonly used by letterpress typesetters and printers. However, they are now used in conjunction with the American point system, rather than to describe the varying and non-standardtype body sizes in place before the long process of standardisation started by Fournier in the 18th Century.
TRADUCCIÓN
Antes de 1737, poca estandarización existió en los tamaños de imprimir tipos ytipos de molde de los tipógrafos a sus propios tamaños y dimensiones. En este año, el Tipógrafo parisino Pierre Simón Parisino introdujo un nuevo sistema que él sacó de dividir dos pulgadas del piepre-métrico francés en ciento cuarenta y cuatro partes iguales. Fournier dio un nombre a la unidad - 'puntos' - y ellos midieron 0.137 puntos de la pulgada inglesa, que está cerca del sistema de...