Multi-Paradigm Modelling (MPM) in the Plantin Style 

The image below is AI-geneated, using Gemini (by Google DeepMind) Nano Banana, as a copper engraving in the Plantin style. This explains the "approximate" Latin, the numbers/dates that don't make sense, etc.

Why the Plantin style?

Christophe Plantin  was an early printer in the 16th  century, about 100 years after Gutenberg. His former residence and publishing house is located in Antwerp and is now the Plantin-Moretus museum (an UNESCO World Heritage site). It's really worth a visit. Check the highlights.

One reason, apart from the obvious link with the city of Antwerp, for using the Plantin style is because Plantin is famous for the Plantin Polyglot Bible. This work has the bible in five languages, which is a tour de force from a translation and typography point of view. It was developed over a period of five years and 13 printing presses were used in parallel. Ensuring that adjacent pages contained the same content, despite the different lenghts of corresponding sentences in the different languages, required insight, not only in syntax, but also in semantics of the texts.

In the figure, note:

  • the printing press on the left;
  • the Multi-Paradigm Modelling (MPM) title on top;
  • the MPM motto "model everything" in (pseudo) Latin on the book cover;
  • the names of formalisms/formalism types in the various banners;
  • the reference to Plantin at the bottom.


Plantin-style MPM
Maintained by Hans Vangheluwe. Last Modified: 2026/03/13 11:48:34.