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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.
Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style : ... Class: Old style : Zilla Slab Class: Slab serif : Additional serif typefaces.
The following is a list of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy.. Goudy was one of America's most prolific designers of metal type. He worked under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many of his designs are old-style serif designs inspired by the relatively organic structure of typefaces created between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, following the lead of earlier ...
An old-style font normally has a left-inclining curve axis with weight stress at about 8 and 2 o'clock; serifs are almost always bracketed (they have curves connecting the serif to the stroke); head serifs are often angled. [14] Old-style faces evolved over time, showing increasing abstraction from what would now be considered handwriting and ...
Its floral ornaments, the curved forms, as well as the emphasis on graphical realisation inspired the type designers of the start of the 20th century. A popular art nouveau font was Eckmann, designed by graphic artist Otto Eckmann. Furthermore, the influence of art nouveau was expressed in a lot of book illustrations and ex libris designs.
While most of his designs are 'old-style' serif faces, they do still explore a wide range of aspects of the genre, with Deepdene offering a strikingly upright italic, Goudy Modern merging traditional old-style letters with the insistent, horizontal serifs of Didone faces of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Goudy Old Style being sold ...
They first appeared in the mid-18th century and share certain features found in both Old Style and Modern faces. Pages in category "Transitional serif typefaces" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Kennerley is an example of the revival of 'old style' fonts that began to displace Didone type for much general use around the end of the nineteenth century. [ 46 ] Frederic Goudy , an Arts and Crafts movement-inspired printer turned type designer, had similar reservations about the lettering style.