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Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (born 1580)

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Jean Jannon

17th-century French typographer

Jean Jannon was a French Protestant printer, type designer, punchcutter and typefounder active in Sedan in the seventeenth century. He was a reasonably prolific printer by contemporary standards, printing several hundred books.
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