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Miklós Tótfalusi Kis

Miklós Tótfalusi Kis

Hungarian tyographer and printer

Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (Hungarian: Misztótfalusi Kis Miklós) (1650 - March 20, 1702) was a Hungarian letter cutter, typeface designer, typographer and printer.[1][2][3][4] Kis was one of the first printers and letter cutters of the Georgian type letters. He made fonts on the request of the Georgian king Archil of Imereti.

1698 book printed by Kis

References

  1. [1]
    Lane, John (1983). "The Types of Nicholas Kis". Journal of the Printing Historical Society: 47–75.
  2. [2]
    Stauffacher, Jack (1985). "The Transylvanian Phoenix: the Kis-Janson Types in the Digital Era". Visible Language. 19 (1): 61–76. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  3. [3]
    Rozsondai, Marianne (2004). "The bindings of books printed by Miklos Misztotfalusi Kis". E codicibus impressisque : opstellen over het boek in de Lage landen voor Elly Cockx-Indestege. Leuven: Peeters. pp. 149–170. ISBN 978-90-429-1423-0.
  4. [4]
    Middendorp, Jan (2004). Dutch type. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. p. 25. ISBN 978-90-6450-460-0. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  • Perrousseaux, Yves (2006) Histoire de l’écriture typographique, de Gutenberg au xviie siècle, Atelier Perrousseaux
  • Sharadze, Guram (1982) Miklos Kis Totfalusi and the Georgian printing, Tbilisi
  • Dán, Róbert (1980) Tótfalusi Kis Miklós grúz betűi, Magyar Könyvszemle
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