Figure 175
Luce’s Types Poétiques compared with Old Style types of Imprimerie Royale
From Luce’s Essai d’une Nouvelle Typographie, Paris, 1771
1771
Louis Luce, third royal type-cutter, who between 1740 and 1770 designed a series of fonts of a letter of narrower proportions than the characters… There were in this series thirty roman bodies and the same number of italic. Luce says in his advertisement to is Essai d’une Nouvelle Typographie of 1771 (beautifully printed by Barbou), that he has tried to make a font different from anything which the Imprimerie Royale has employed, and in the Essai he shows Grandjean’s letters and his own.