Johann Carl Ludwig Prillwitz, the german punch cutter and type
founder, cut the first classicistic Didot letters still before Walbaum.
The earliest proof of so called Prillwitz letters is dated 12 of april 1790.
The famous publisher Georg Joachim Goeschen used these letters for many of his classic publications.
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The Display version is optimized for display sizes.
See the
specimen
PDF file for example.