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The first known example of a slab-serif letterform is woodblock lettering on an 1810 lottery advertisement from London. [7] Slab-serif type was perhaps first introduced by London typefounder Vincent Figgins under the name "Antique", appearing in a type-specimen dated 1815 (but probably issued in 1817). [8] [1] [b]
In passing references to details of style, it may be appropriate to use lower case terms e.g.: baroque, gothic, mannerist, modernist – but always Renaissance, Impressionist, Middle Ages. A style guide at zeal.com suggests using a dictionary to determine capitalization. However, dictionaries vary on art movement/style capitalization.
The Public Art Style Guide has been designed specifically to help you create and edit articles about public art. This guide is best used in conjunction with the Public Art New Article Guide. Please use the table of contents to navigate directly to specific sections of the Style Guide.
Many modern writers as a result ignore them and prefer the term slab-serif, providing individual descriptions of the features of specific designs. Clarendon - often particularly used to refer to slab-serifs with 'bracketed' serifs. [7] Antique - the first name used for slab-serifs, but in France often used for sans-serifs. Sometimes taken to ...
Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article and should not be changed without good reason. Edit warring over stylistic choices is unacceptable. [b] New content added to this page should directly address a persistently recurring style issue.
IBM did not trademark the name Courier, so the typeface design concept and its name are now public domain. [3] According to some sources, a later version for IBM's Selectric typewriters was developed with input from Adrian Frutiger, although Paul Shaw writes that this is a confusion with Frutiger's adaptation of his Univers typeface for the Selectric system.
There are five heading levels used in writing articles (the top-level one being reserved for the auto-displayed page name). [b] Terms in description lists (example: Glossary of the American trucking industry) Table headers and captions (but not image captions) A link to the page on which that link appears, called a self link
The art historian Jennifer Raab of Yale University describes it as inherently contradictory: "it can delineate difference or emphasize unity". [2] She furthers that "the detail always points away from itself to something else–to other parts of a picture, to the work of art as a whole".