弗蘭克·辛曼·皮爾蓬特
外觀
Frank Hinman Pierpont | |
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出生 | 1860年 美國康涅狄格州紐黑文 |
逝世 | 1937年 英格蘭 |
國籍 | 美國 |
知名於 | 字體排印學 |
知名作品 | Plantin |
弗蘭克·辛曼·皮爾蓬特(Frank Hinman Pierpont,1860年—1937年),美國工程師、字體設計師。
皮爾彭特於1860年在美國康涅狄格州紐黑文出生,1937年2月11日在英格蘭逝世[1][2]。他主要在英國Monotype Corporation公司任職[3][4][5]。
他在美國康涅狄格州哈特福德學習機械工程之後,於1886年開始在一家專利局從事排版機的工作。1894前往歐洲,並在1896年成為了德國排版機製造商Typograph Setzmachinen-Fabrik的主管。
他於1899年幫助組建位於英國薩里的Lanston Monotype公司並擔任工廠經理,後來成為英國分公司的董事會成員,並一直任職到其去世的前一年,即1936年[6][7][8]。在Monotype工作期間,他監督了多款經典、創新的字體(例如Times New Roman等)製作[9][10]。據報道,他對Monotype的藝術顧問Stanley Morison和宣傳經理Beatrice Warde的藝術野心表示懷疑,他在一本1920年代的Gill Sans字體備忘中曾抱怨說,「這款字沒什麼值得推薦的,而且有很多地方難以令人接受。」[11][12][13][14]
閒暇之時,皮爾蓬特喜歡種玫瑰。他於1936年從工程經理職位上退休,並成為顧問工程師,在董事會任職,但於翌年去世。[15]
設計字體作品
[編輯]所有字體均為英國British Monotype公司出品:
- Imprint,與Fritz Stelzer合作出品
- Plantin (1913),與Fritz Stelzer合作出品[16]
- Horley Oldstyle (1925),以 Horley命名。[17]
- Monotype Grotesque (1926),是 貝特霍爾德鑄字廠的Ideal Grotesque字體的更新版。
- Bembo (1929) 復刻由皮爾彭特主持,參照其之前的Poliphilus和Blado設計。
- Rockwell (1934)
參考
[編輯]- ^ Slinn, Judy; Carter, Sebastian; Southall, Richard. History of the Monotype Corporation. : 202–3 etc.
- ^ Wallis, Lawrence. Frank Hinman Pierpont (1860-1937): An Unsung Pioneer of Mechanical Typesetting. Bulletin of the Printing Historical Society: 8–14.
- ^ Mosley, James. Review: A Tally of Types. Journal of the Printing Historical Society. 2001,. 3, new series: 63–67.
That it was Pierpont himself who was central to this drive for quality is made abundantly clear by the abrupt changes that are seen after his retirement in 1937. All the types produced during the brief period before the Second World War, although they naturally have many fine features, are more or less flawed.
- ^ Rhatigan, Dan. Time and Times again. Monotype. [28 July 2015]. (原始內容存檔於2018-10-19).
- ^ Mosley, James. Reviving the Classics: Matthew Carter and the Interpretation of Historical Models. Mosley, James; Re, Margaret; Drucker, Johanna; Carter, Matthew (編). Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter. Princeton Architectural Press. 2003: 31–34 [2021-02-14]. ISBN 9781568984278. (原始內容存檔於2020-11-05).
- ^ Neil Macmillan. An A-Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press. 2006: 147. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.
- ^ Monotype 1897-1937 (PDF). [24 February 2018]. (原始內容存檔 (PDF)於2021-11-24).
- ^ Dreyfus, John. Into Print: Selected writings on printing history, typography and book production 1st hardcover. Boston: David R. Godine. 1995: 116–7. ISBN 9781567920451.
- ^ Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7..
- ^ Dreyfus, John. The Evolution of Times New Roman. The Penrose Annual. 1973, 66: 165–174.
[In developing Times New Roman, Stanley] Morison was fortunate in being able to produce a new type for the newspaper at great speed and with a high degree of technical excellance...an exceptionally able team had been built up by Frank Hinman Pierpont, an American martinet of wide experience.
- ^ Mosley, James. Eric Gill and the Cockerel Press. Upper & Lower Case. International Typeface Corporation. [7 October 2016]. (原始內容存檔於29 July 2012).
- ^ Mosley, James. Eric Gill's Perpetua Type. Fine Print.
- ^ Mosley, James. Eric Gill's Perpetua Type. Ginger, E.M. (編). Fine Print on Type. Lund Humphries. 1989: 54–58.
- ^ Wardle, Tiffany. The story of Perpetua (PDF). University of Reading. 2000: 5 [2009-03-26]. (原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2006-11-10).
- ^ Frank Hinman Pierpont 1860-1937: A Memoir and Tribute (PDF). Monotype Recorder. 1937, 36 (1): 13–16 [24 February 2018]. (原始內容存檔 (PDF)於2016-12-27).
- ^ Morison, Stanley. A Tally of Types. CUP Archive. 7 June 1973: 22–24. ISBN 978-0-521-09786-4.
- ^ Horley Old Style MT. MyFonts. Adobe. [24 February 2018]. (原始內容存檔於2021-03-08).
- Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. ISBN 0-7137-1347-X.
外部連結
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