Kerning 2018 - Riccardo Olocco - Micro analysis of printed marks of type Nicolas Jenson’s roman

I will introduce the methods and the procedures that I have developed to enable correct identification of historical type, and I will apply them to the Jenson roman, the most highly praised roman of the early Renaissance. I am currently a PhD student at the University of Reading and my research is based on photographic enlargements of printed type and precise analysis of type details. The analysis follows a comparative approach and it is sustained by the overlaying of multiple images of letters that look similar. This practice clearly highlights differences and similarities among the letters.