Columba
Weights
6
Styles
22
Available
Variable
Stylistic Sets
2
Minikin
↑ Columba Ruby Regular
Gem
↑ Columba Ruby Medium
Pearl
↑ Columba Ruby Semibold
Nonpareil
↑ Columba Ruby Bold
Minion
↑ Columba Ruby Ultra
Bourgeois
↑ Columba Text Regular
Small Pica
↑ Columba Text Medium
English
↑ Columba Text Semibold
Greater Primer
↑ Columba Text Bold
Double Small Pica
↑ Columba Text Ultra
Double English
↑ Columba Banner Headline
Brilliant
↑ Columba Ruby Italic
Diamond
↑ Columba Ruby Medium italic
Ruby
↑ Columba Ruby Semibold Italic
Emerald
↑ Columba Ruby Bold Italic
Brevier
↑ Columba Ruby Ultra Italic
Long Primer
↑ Columba Text Italic
Pica
↑ Columba Text Medium Italic
Columbian Exchange
↑ Columba Text Semibold Italic
Paragon
↑ Columba Text Bold Italic
Double Pica
↑ Columba Text Ultra Italic
Five-line Nonpareil
↑ Columba Banner Headline
Cicero, Pica,
Ruby, Long Primer,
Fournier
Cicero, Pica,
Ruby, Long Primer,
Fournier
Didot's Point System
¶ Both in Didot’s and fournier’s systems, some point sizes have have traditional names such as Cicero (before the introduction of point systems, type sizes were called by names such as cicero, pica, ruby, long primer, etc.).
System: Typographic
*(Length, Unit of )*
First Utilised ~1486, Italy
¶ Epistulae ad Familiares
{Publication}
*(Length, Unit of )*
First Utilised ~1486, Italy
¶ Epistulae ad Familiares
{Publication}
Pannartz
& Sweynheim
§ 1 point = 1/6 Ligne = 1/72
French Royal Inch
=15 625/41 559 MM*
French Royal Inch
=15 625/41 559 MM*
* However in practice,
mostly 0.376 000 MM, i.e. +0.0076%
mostly 0.376 000 MM, i.e. +0.0076%
500/13