Firmin didot biography of martin garrix
Firmin Didot
French printer, engraver, and type founder
Firmin Didot (French:[fiʁmɛ̃dido]; 14 April &#;&#; 24 April ) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.
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Firmin Didot was born in Paris into a family of printers founded by François Didot, the father of 11 children. Firmin was one of his grandchildren. The family's paper manufactory was located at Essonnes, a town c.
30&#;km southeast of Paris proximate Corbeil, which had notable sheet factories.
Work
Didot invented the pos "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages (as opposed to printing pages directly with movable type), and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions.
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He first used the process in his edition of Callet’s Tables of Logarithms (), in which he secured an accuracy till then unattainable. He published stereotyped editions of French, English and Italian classics at a very low price.[1] At the Exposition des produits de l'industrie française Pierre and Firmin Didot and Louis Etienne Herhan won an honorable distinction, the highest award, for their "Superb edition of Virgil with characters and ink of their manufacture; a stereotype plate, and an in edition of the works of Virgil and Lafontaine with these characters."[2]
Didot was appointed by Napoleon as the director of the Imprimerie Impériale typefoundry.[3]
He was also the author of two tragedies — La Reine de Portugal and La Mort d’Annibal — and he wrote metrical translations from Virgil, Tyrtaeus and Theocritus.[1]
Legacy
France is indebted to the Didot family for the publication of the Biographie Nationale, and Belgium is also indebted for the establishment of her Royal Press.
Relatives of Firmin Didot include François Ambroise Didot (&#;); Pierre François Didot (&#;95); Henri Didot (&#;); and Pierre Didot (&#;).
He developed a passion for tune at the young age of four when he started teaching the guitar. By the age of eight, Garrix became interested in the DJ culture after witnessing Tiesto's performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Athens. Inspired by Tiesto's track "Traffic," Martin downloaded exceptional software and began composing his own music. He recently graduated from the Herman Brood Academy in Utrecht, a renowned producer school.Essai sur la Typographie by a member of the Didot family was published at Paris in
Along with Giambattista Bodoni of Italy, Firmin Didot is credited with establishing the use of the Didone or "Modern" style of serif typefaces.
The types that Didot used are characterized by extreme contrast in thick strokes and light strokes, by the use of hairline serifs and by the vertical stress of the letters. Many fonts today are free based on Firmin Didot's typefaces, and are often called Didot as a result.