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The Bignon Commission ((フランス語:commission Bignon); 1693–1718) was a group directed by the French minister Colbert to examine the feasibility of compiling a description of all the arts and industrial processes used in France. It was headed by Abbé Bignon, who selected the royal typographer Jacques Jaugeon, the scholar Gilles Filleau des Billettes, and Father Sébastien Truchet to assist him. As part of their participation, the three were named to the Academy by King Louis XIV in 1699. __NOTOC__ The commission reported that the project would be feasible and began by examining French printing and typography, as the "art by which all others are preserved". As part of the project, Jaugeon and Truchet established the first typographic point system, vector fonts, the bitmap, slanted italic type, and the ''Romain du Roi'' ("King's Roman") font, which later developed into Times New Roman. In 1710, the work continued under a new chief editor, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. The commission was reorganized in 1718, with other groups continuing its work. The release of Diderot and D'Alembert's ''Encyclopedia'' in 1750 finally caused the Academy to finally publish a 73-volume ''Descriptions of the Arts and Trades'' but it remains generally unknown. ==See also== * Truchet point 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bignon Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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