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unusual facts about Roman type


Richard Pynson

Pynson, whose books make him technically and typographically the outstanding English printer of his generation, is credited with introducing Roman type to English printing.


Johann and Wendelin of Speyer

The Speyer brothers are sometimes credited as the originators of the Roman type of character of movable type, other contenders being Pannartz and Sweynheim and Nicholas Jenson.


see also

GSR Class 800

The nameplates’ lattering was in Gaelic script using dot above in place of the 'h' (see Irish orthography), although at first locomotive 800 carried an Anglicised name Maeve in roman type.