Vincent figgins biography

British typefounder

Vincent Figgins ( – 29 February ) was a British typefounder based in London, who cast and sold metal type for printing.

Vincent Figgins was a British typefounder based in London, who cast and sold metal type for printing.

Vincent Figgins was a British punchcutter and typefounder who worked as an apprentice to Joseph Jackson from , and left to set up his own foundry in

Vincent Figgins ( – 29 February ) was a.

Vincent Figgins - Typeface Designer.

This excellent letter-founder was bound apprentice to Joseph Jackson in the year , at the age of 16, and remained in his service till Jackson's death in.

After an apprenticeship with typefounder Joseph Jackson, he established his own type foundry in His company was extremely successful and, with its range of modern serif faces and display typefaces, had a strong influence on the styles of British printing in the nineteenth century.

A successor company continued to make type until the s.

Figgins introduced or popularised both slab-serif and sans-serif typefaces, which have since become two of the main genres of typeface. He was also involved in local politics as a Councilman of the City of London.

Family and early life

The son of a bookkeeper,^[2] Figgins was born in and started his career as an apprentice to the typefounder Joseph Jackson. He worked for Jackson from until Jackson's death in According to Talbot Baines Reed, Figgins was largely the manager of