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Hoefler Text, a typeface designed in 1991, uses text figures. The ascending six and descending nines are minted on this 1996 U.S. penny. Text figures (also known as non-lining, lowercase, old style, [1] ranging, hanging, medieval, billing, [2] or antique [3] figures or numerals) are numerals designed with varying heights in a fashion that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name.
Various German language blackletter typefaces English blackletter typefaces highlighting differences between select characters Modern interpretation of blackletter script in the form of the font "Old English" which includes several anachronistic glyphs, such as Arabic numerals, ampersand (instead of Tironian et) and several punctuation marks ...
Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters (154,998 ...
In "old style" text figures, numerals 0, 1 and 2 are x-height; numerals 6 and 8 have bowls within x-height, plus ascenders; numerals 3, 5, 7 and 9 have descenders from x-height, with 3 resembling ʒ; and the numeral 4 extends a short distance both up and down from x-height. Old-style numerals are often used by British presses.
Miller & Richard's original specimen for their Old Style fonts, in a mock-traditional style with the long s and archaic ligatures. [1]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.
Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry. As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [ 1 ] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [ 2 ]
The family of typefaces was sold by number rather than using weight names. Commonly used numbers included: Grotesque No. 5 – condensed; Grotesque No. 6 – wide [12] Grotesque No. 7 – (shown on specimen, above) light condensed; Grotesque No. 8 – wide, bold. [12] Grotesque No. 9 – (shown on specimen, above) condensed, bold.
Engravers Old English (1906, Benton), based upon Caslon Text and designed in association with "Cowan" or perhaps Phinney. Engravers Old English Bold (1910, Benton) Engravers Shaded (1906, Benton) Lithographic Shaded (1914, Benton + W. F. Capitian), a half-shaded version of Engravers Shaded. Engravers Text (1930, Benton) Flemish Black (1902 ...