Miklós Tótfalusi Kis (), known in English-speaking countries as Nicholas Kis (1650 to March 20, 1702) was a Hungarian letter cutter, typeface designer,

typographer Typography is the art and technique of Typesetting, arranging type to make written language legibility, legible, readability, readable and beauty, appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, Point (typogra ...

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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

Archil of Imereti Archil ( ka, არჩილი) (1647 – April 16, 1713), of Bagrationi dynasty, king (''mepe'') of Imereti in western Georgia (1661–1663, 1678–1679, 1690–1691, 1695–1696, and 1698) and of Kakheti in eastern Georgia (1664–75). After a ...

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 People from the Habsburg monarchy {{Typ-stub