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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 Hoefler Class: Old style : Iowan Old Style Designer: John Downer Class ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Geometric designs have no bracketing and evenly weighted stems and serifs. Early examples include Memphis, Rockwell, Karnak, Beton, Rosmini, City and Tower, several of which were influenced by geometric sans-serifs of the 1920s and 30s, especially Futura. [3] Recent well-known geometric sans-serifs include ITC Lubalin, Neutraface Slab and Archer.
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 ...
Palatino is an old-style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf, initially released in 1949 by the Stempel foundry and later by other companies, most notably the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. [a] Palatino is optimised for legitibility with open counters, balanced proportions, moderate stroke contrast and flared serifs.
The ancestor of Bookman Old Style is Miller & Richard's "Old Style", cut by Alexander Phemister. Often described as "modernised old style", it is a redesign of "true old-style" serif faces from the eighteenth century such as Caslon. Like them, it has sloping top serifs and an avoidance of abrupt contrasts in stroke widths.