Guillaume Le Bé (1525-1598)

Guillaume Le Bé was an artist and punch-cutter who specialised in typefaces for 'exotic' scripts - Hebrew, Greek, Syriaque. His most famous one was his typeface for Hebrew letters cut in 1573.

The Le Bé family owned a paper mill in Paris. Not famed for his modesty, he wrote in the margin of one of his specimens in 1580:

bien antique et taille d'un bon maistre

(beautifully classical and crafted by a fine master.)

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