Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
English and German Bodies
English and German Bodies.
The following table of the relative sizes of English and German type bodies, is published by the Inland Printer, with the remark that it is not strictly accurate. As, however, Hr. H. Berthold of Berlin, by whom it is constructed, is one of the most exact of men, and manufactures the most accurately-cut brass-rule for the leading German foundries, his figures so far as the German bodies are concerned, may be accepted without question. Any inaccuracies may be attributed to the varying standards of English houses. The first column of figures shows the equivalent of the body in eighths of pica, the second in Didot point. German names are in italic.
⅛ pica. | Didot. | |
Four-line Pica | 32·00 | 45·00 |
Grobe Canon | 29·90 | 42·00 |
Doppel Text | 28·48 | 40·00 |
Two-line Double Pica | 27·75 | 39·00 |
Kleine Canon | 25·62 | 36·00 |
Three-line Pica | 24·00 | 33·75 |
Two-line Great Primer= Doppel Tertia | 21·75 | 32·00 |
Doppel Mittel | 19·92 | 28·00 |
Two-line English | 17·95 | 25·00 |
Doppel Cicero | 17·08 | 24·00 |
Two-line Pica | 16·00 | 22·50 |
Text | 14·24 | 20·00 |
Double Pica | 13·87 | 19·50 |
Two-line Long Primer = Doppel Bourgeois | 12·81 | 18·00 |
Great Primer = Tertia | 11·37 | 16·00 |
Two-line Brevier | 10·32 | 14·50 |
Mittel | 9·96 | 14·00 |
Two-line Minion | 9·25 | 13·00 |
English | 8·97 | 12·50 |
Cicero | 8·54 | 12·00 |
English (small) | 8·42 | 11·84 |
Pica | 8·00 | 11·25 |
Pica (American) | 7·92 | 11·19 |
Brevier | 7·83 | 11·00 |
Corpus or Garmond | 7·12 | 10·00 |
Small Pica | 6·99 | 9·75 |
Long Primer=Bourgeois | 6·40 | 9·00 |
Bourgeois=Petit | 5·69 | 8·00 |
Brevier | 5·06 | 7·25 |
Colonel | 4·98 | 7·00 |
Minion | 4·63 | 6·50 |
Emerald | 4·48 | 6·25 |
Minionette (American) = Nonpareil | 4·27 | 6·00 |
Emerald (small) | 4·21 | 5·92 |
Nonpareil | 4·00 | 5·62 |
Perl | 3·56 | 5·00 |
Ruby=Agate (American) | 3·49 | 4·82 |
Pearl | 3·20 | 4·50 |
Diamant | 2·84 | 4·00 |
Four-to pica | 2·00 | 2·81 |
Six-to-pica | 1·33 | 1·87 |
Eight-to-pica | 1·00 | 1·40 |