Experiment nach Burnhill zur Dimensionierung früher Typographie bei Aldus Manutius

Abstract

Peter Burnhill has proven the possibility of normalizing typefaces in early printing by evaluating its surviving printed matter. For this purpose he employed a relative system of sizes. This paper demonstrates the way we were able to reconstruct and substantiate Burnhill’s study with the help of software. As a result, Burnhill’s approach and the viability of computerized evaluation in relation to the size of images of written artifacts are corroborated.