Plantin

Summary

Plantin is a typeface family^[1]. Plantin draws 108 Wikipedia views per month (typeface_family category, ranking #42 of 190).^[2]

Key Facts

• Plantin's image is recorded as Plantin font sample.png^[3].
• Plantin's instance of is recorded as typeface family^[4].
• Christophe Plantin is named after Plantin^[5].
• Plantin's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 16249344s^[6].
• Plantin's subclass of is recorded as serif typeface^[7].
• Plantin's writing system is recorded as Latin script^[8].
• Plantin's designed by is recorded as Frank Hinman Pierpont^[9].
• Plantin's Commons category is recorded as Plantin (typeface)^[10].
• Plantin's country of origin is recorded as United States^[11].
• +1913-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Plantin^[12].
• Plantin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/051_7l_^[13].
• Plantin's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Plantin^[14].
• Plantin's Vox-ATypI classification is recorded as classical garalde typeface genre^[15].
• Plantin's type foundry is recorded as Monotype^[16].
• Plantin's Fonts In Use identifier is recorded as 4376^[17].

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Designation and Status

Plantin's instance of is recorded as typeface family^[4].

History and Context

+1913-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Plantin^[12]. Christophe Plantin is named after Plantin^[5].

Why It Matters

Plantin draws 108 Wikipedia views per month (typeface_family category, ranking #42 of 190).^[2]