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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]
Monotype Modern, a nineteenth-century text face, next to Haas Clarendon Bold, a display face. Both fonts show classic nineteenth-century design features, for instance on the 'Q', 'R', 'r', 'a' and 'c'. However, the Clarendon is much wider with a higher x-height, and contrast between thick and thin strokes has been reduced.
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; ... Pages in category "Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 19th century" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Didot's type in the Code civil des Français, printed by the company of Firmin Didot in 1804.. Didone (/ d i ˈ d oʊ n i /) is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the 19th century.
Stylistically the serif fonts of the mid-19th century appeared very robust and otherwise had more or less neo-classical design features, which changed during the course of time: By the application of the slab serif design feature and by appending serifs to more and more typefaces, an independent intermediate group of heterogeneous fonts emerged ...
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.
A digitisation of Eldorado by Font Bureau, on which Frere-Jones collaborated (shown is the Text optical size). Eldorado (1993–94) - revival of Dwiggins' Eldorado (1953), itself based on a 16th-century font by Jacques de Sanlecque the Elder.
Slab serifs were introduced in the early nineteenth century. Slab serifs form a large and varied genre. Some such as Memphis and Rockwell have a geometric design with minimal variation in stroke width: they are sometimes described as sans-serif fonts with added serifs.