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Dutch type

A register more than a class: robust, large on the body, economical in width, drawn to hold up in print at small sizes, and taught as a school rather than a style.

Dutch type: Fleischman's Augustijn roman and italic of 1738 in the Enschedé specimen of 1768, sturdy and economical on the body.
Fleischman's Augustijn roman, 1768, Joan Michael Fleischman, punchcutter; Joannes Enschedé, printer.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Haarlem in 1768 from punches cut in 1738; Fleischman died in 1768 and Enschedé in 1780, and the sheet is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain (Rijksmuseum), and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the roman showing. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Dutch type: Christoffel van Dijck's Kleene Kanon and Ascendonica romans on the specimen sheet sold by Daniel Elsevier's widow, Amsterdam, 1681, sturdy and large on the body.
Van Dijck's romans, the Elsevier specimen, 1681, Christoffel van Dijck, punchcutter; issued by the widow of Daniel Elsevier.
Public domainPublic domain: A specimen sheet printed in Amsterdam in 1681 from types cut by van Dijck, who died in 1669; out of copyright everywhere; the file is a phototype reproduction and Commons tags it public domain; this house reads a faithful reproduction of a flat public-domain sheet as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to two of the romans. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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Where it came from

The Hague school and the Type and Media programme at the Royal Academy of Art are what the modern sense of the term points at.

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