This book gathers papers presented in the main track of IITI 2019, the Fourth International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, held in Ostrava–Prague, Czech Republic on December 2–7, 2019. The conference was jointly organized by Rostov State Transport University (Russia) and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) with the participation of the Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence (RAAI). IITI 2019 was devoted to practical models and industrial applications of intelligent information systems. Though chiefly intended to promote the implementation of advanced information technologies in various industries, topics such as the state of the art in intelligent systems and soft computing were also discussed.

This collection of thirteen essays examines sixteenth-century type design in France. Typefaces developed during this period were to influence decisively the typography of the centuries which followed, and they continue to influence a great many contemporary typefaces. The papers' common goal is to establish the paternity of the typefaces described and critically to appraise their attributions, many of which have previously been inadequately ascribed. Such an approach will be of interest to type historians and type designers seeking better-documented attributions, and to historians, philologists, and bibliographers, whose study of historical imprints will benefit from more accurate type descriptions. The papers and illustrations focus on the most important letter-cutters of the French Renaissance, including Simon de Colines, Robert Estienne, Claude Garamont, Robert Granjon, Pierre Haultin, and also include a number of minor masters of the period.

This pioneer work is an annotated catalogue, illustrated with specimens of the types made during the sixteenth century in the area now covered by the Netherlands and Belgium. The influence of the sixteenth-century typecutters was considerable; in fact, many of their type faces, described in this book, were to be found in English printing offices of those days and even much later.