Times New Roman and other "Roman" font based on the handwriting of Poggio Bracciolini, who lived in the 14th century

Basis for printing font was designed back in Srednevekove



Dzhanfranchesko Poggio Bracciolini has many advantages. He was a writer, a humanist and even during the reign of the seven Popes served in the Vatican.



He loved to read and had an excellent education. One of his achievements was the restoration of a huge number of manuscripts in Latin, which, forgotten and gradually crumbled into dust, gathering dust in libraries across Europe.

Also Bracciolini was a particular handwriting: the people's handwriting looked elegant, beautiful and easy to read. Because of this people's love of his handwriting Brachcholini wanted to make it even better, when he worked in Florence copyist of manuscripts.

He invented the script, which after many centuries formed the basis of a family of "Roman" type fonts. All of these fonts, for example, the famous «Times New Roman», based on the handwriting of this person.

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