Philippe Grandjean (in modern French spelled Grandjon) (1666–1714) was a French
type engraver notable for his series of Roman and italic types known as
Romain du Roi (French: King's Roman), produced in tandem with Louis Simonneau.
Information
King
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
, in 1692,
directed that a typeface be designed at any necessary expense for the exclusive use of the Royal printer. The design was carried out by Grandjean and Simonneau with approval and supervision by a group of mathematicians and philosophers.
References
French typographers and type designers
1666 births
1714 deaths
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