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Bookman evolved from fonts known as Old Style Antique, released around 1869. These were created as a bold version of the "Old Style" typeface, which had been cut by Alexander Phemister around the 1850s for the Miller & Richard foundry and become a standard, popular book typeface.
Old Style, later referred to as modernised old style, was the name given to a series of serif typefaces cut from the mid-nineteenth century and sold by the type foundry Miller & Richard, of Edinburgh in Scotland. It was a standard typeface in Britain for literary and prestigious printing in the second half of the nineteenth century and the ...
[5] [6] [a] (Bookman Old Style is an extremely distant descendant of this style. [7]) Its "Modern Face", a more geometric and 'classical' style of serif letter, was also popular and often copied. [8] [9] One of its punchcutters of the period was Alexander Phemister, who would later emigrate to the United States and cut "old style" designs there ...
This category contains typefaces in the old style serif classification, including both Venetian and Garalde varieties. These faces date back to 1465 and are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy. This is not for any "old" typeface, such as old English or Fraktur. For that, please see Category:Blackletter typefaces.
From the 1860s new types began to appear in a style similar to Caslon's, starting from Miller & Richard's Modernised Old Style of c. 1860. [49] (Bookman Old Style is a descendant of this typeface, but made bolder with a boosted x-height very unlike the original Caslon. [49]) The Caslon foundry covertly replaced some sizes with new, cleaner ...
Class: Old style : Garamond Designer: Claude Garamond & Jean Jannon Class: Old style : Gentium Designer: Victor Gaultney Class: Other : Georgia Designer: Matthew Carter Class: Transitional : Goudy Old Style Designer: Frederic Goudy Class: Old style : Granjon Designer: George Wallace Jones Class: Old style : Hoefler Text Designer: Jonathan ...
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Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman, cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in 1894 for master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, for use in The Century Magazine. [1]