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Pierre Haultin (c. 1510 – 1587) was a French printer, publisher,
Pierre Haultin (c. 1510 – 1587) was a French printer, publisher, punchcutter
Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould sh ...
and typefounder.
He was the nephew of the famous Parisian women printer Charlotte Guillard. As a punchcutter, he may have been trained by Claude Garamont, who worked for Guillard. He started his career as a typefounder, a woodcutter and a bookseller in Paris around 1545.
A French Calvinist, Haultin left Paris for Lyon and Geneva in 1550, and then ran a printing office in La Rochelle
La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle'') is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime Departments of France, department. Wi ...
from 1571 to 1587. Haultin engraved many typeface
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s, including romans, italics
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography.
Owing to the influence f ...
, Greek
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and music type, which were widely used across Europe; his nephew Jerome Haultin lived in London from around 1568 and sold his types there.
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* * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Haultin, Pierre French typographers and type designers 1587 deaths 16th-century French businesspeople Year of birth uncertain