Miklós Tótfalusi Kis ( hu, Misztótfalusi Kis Miklós) (1650 - March 20, 1702) was a Hungarian letter cutter,

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. 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

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References

*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 1650 births 1702 deaths Hungarian publishers (people) Hungarian typographers and type designers Artists from Cluj-Napoca {{Typ-stub