* The Didot Perceval, named after the manuscript ’ s former owner, and purportedly a prosification of Robert de Boron ’ s sequel to Joseph d ’ Arimathie.

However, the basic idea of the point system – to generate different type sizes by multiplying a single minimum unit calculated by dividing a base measurement unit such as one French Royal inch – was not Didot ’ s invention, but Fournier ’ s .< ref group =" note ">

In Didot ’ s point system:

Both in Didot ’ s and Fournier ’ s systems, some point sizes have traditional names such as Cicero ( before introduction of point systems, type sizes were called by names such as Cicero, Pica, Ruby, Long Primer, etc.

Her first big find was art director Alexey Brodovitch, who innovated Bazaar ’ s iconic Didot logo.

Brodovitch ’ s signature use of white space, his innovation of Bazaar ’ s iconic Didot logo, and the cinematic quality that his obsessive cropping brought to layouts ( not even the work of Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson was safe from his busy scissors ) compelled Truman Capote to write, " What Dom Pérignon was to champagne ... so has been to ... photographic design and editorial layout.

François-Ambroise Didot ( 1730 – 1801 ) returned to Truchet ’ s idea, but chose a size twice as large.

Like the French Didot point, the traditional American printer ’ s point was replaced in the 1980s by the current computer-based DTP point system.

He saw Didot as the “ best printer that now exist and maybe that has ever existed .” Becoming the man he had been raised to be, Bache worked in a shop at the family ’ s Franklin Court property on Market Street.

In Europe, the Didot point system was created by François-Ambroise Didot ( 1730 – 1804 ) in c. 1783.

The Didot point system has been widely used in European countries.

The pica originated around 1785, when François-Ambrose " L ' éclat " Didot ( 1730 – 1804 ) refined the typographic measures system created by Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune ( 1712 – 1768 ).

About 1780 François-Ambroise Didot adapted the point system for sizing typefaces by width, using units of 1 / 72 of the pre-metric French inch.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

A machine for making a continuous sheet of paper on a loop of wire fabric was patented in 1798 by Nicholas Louis Robert who worked for Saint-Léger Didot family in France.

His final work was De la force publique considérée par tous ses rapports ( Paris: Didot l ' aîné, 1790 ) in which he contradicted several of the postulates on militias and professional armies.

In 1832 he was invited by the brothers Didot to Paris, to cooperate in a new edition of Estienne's Greek Thesaurus.

With Baskerville in England and the Didot family in France, Bodoni was a leader in originating pseudoclassical typefaces.

At the time Robert was working for Saint-Léger Didot, with whom he quarrelled over the ownership of the invention.

Didot thought that England was a better place to develop the machine.

While here, Alfieri made arrangements with Didot for an edition of his tragedies, but was soon after forced to quit Paris by the storms of the French Revolution.

After the French revolution of 1789 one popular proponent of a switch to metric was Didot

François Didot ( son of Denis Didot ) was a merchant who was born in Paris in 1689 and died in 1757.

François Didot was a learned man, and held by his colleagues in such great esteem that he was elected to the dignity of Syndic of the Booksellers ' Corporation in 1735.

He edited Procopius for Niebuhr's Corpus of the Byzantine writers, and between 1846 and 1851 brought out at Oxford an important edition of Demosthenes ; he also edited Lucian and Josephus for the Didot classics, while his work on Homeric scholarship is represented by his four-volume edition of the Homeric scholia.

François-Ambroise Didot invented a new printing-press, improved type-founding, and was the first to print on vellum paper.

He authored and published an important textbook on the theory and practice of watchmaking: " Manuel Chronométrique ou précis de ce qui concerne le temps, ses divisions, ses mesures, leurs usages ", Published 1821 by Didot, Paris ( 267 pages, Frontispiece and 5 engraved foldout plates ).

Bache learned type-founding as an apprentice in Paris to Francois-Ambrose Didot, first printer to print on vellum paper.

Bodoni admired the work of John Baskerville and studied in detail the designs of French type founders Pierre Simon Fournier and Firmin Didot.

Pierre Didot ( son of François-Ambroise Didot ) was born in 1760 and died in 1853.

Pierre Didot was awarded a gold medal at the exhibition of 1798, for his edition of Virgil.

Pierre Didot was also a poet and translated in verse the fourth book of Georgics, the first books of Horace's Odes, and wrote a number of original poems.

Jules Didot ( son of Pierre Didot ) was born in 1794 and died in 1871.

* Pierre Le Gentil, " The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval ", chapter 19, in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, A Collaborative History, ( ed.

* 1795-1798: Voyage d ' Egypte et de Nubie, Nouvelle édition, Pierre Didot l ' ainé, Paris.

Relatives of Firmin Didot include François Ambroise Didot ( 1730 – 1804 ); Pierre François Didot ( 1732 – 95 ); Henri Didot ( 1765 – 1862 ); and Pierre Didot ( 1760 – 1853 ).

Various typographic points were defined, including the Truchet point by Sébastien Truchet ( 1657 – 1729 ), the Fournier point by Pierre Simon Fournier in 1737 and the Didot point by the Didot brothers, Francois Ambroise and Pierre Francois, in 1755 or 1767 or 1783, which was exactly two Truchet points.

He edited Isocrates, Panegyricus ( 1831 ); with Sauppe, Lycurgus, Leocralca ( 1834 ) and Oratores Atticae ( 1838 – 1850 ); with Orelli and Winckelmann, a critical edition of Plato ( 1839 – 1842 ), which marked a distinct advance in the text, two new manuscripts being laid under contribution ; with Orelli, Babrius, Fabellae Iambicae nuper repertae ( 1845 ); Isocrates, in the Didot collection of classics ( 1846 ).

* April 24 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder ( b. 1764 )

* Edition of the works of Amyot from the firm of Didot ( 25 vols, 1818 – 1821 )

Girodet produced a vast quantity of illustrations, amongst which may be cited those for the Didot Virgil ( 1798 ) and for the Louvre Racine ( 1801 – 1805 ).

– Paris: Firmin Didot, 1854

– Paris: Firmin Didot, 1862

Firmin Didot ( 14 April 1764 – 24 April 1836 ) was a French printer, engraver, and type founder.