Figure 5

Fournier’s Table of Proportions of Bodies of Different Types

From Modèles des Caractères de l’Imprimerie, Paris, 1742

1742

In the Modèles Fournier took for his unit of measurement a line of six points, and a 10-point type would therefore be measured as one line and four points—a plan somewhat cumbrous and inconvenient.

See chapter 2