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For a suspended slab, there are a number of designs to improve the strength-to-weight ratio. In all cases the top surface remains flat, and the underside is modulated: A corrugated slab is designed when the concrete is poured into a corrugated steel tray, more commonly called decking. This steel tray improves strength of the slab, and prevents ...
The art historian Jennifer Raab of Yale University describes it as inherently contradictory: "it can delineate difference or emphasize unity". [2] She furthers that "the detail always points away from itself to something else–to other parts of a picture, to the work of art as a whole".
Many modern writers as a result ignore them and prefer the term slab-serif, providing individual descriptions of the features of specific designs. Clarendon - often particularly used to refer to slab-serifs with 'bracketed' serifs. [7] Antique - the first name used for slab-serifs, but in France often used for sans-serifs. Sometimes taken to ...
This suite of templates creates tables of public art for use on articles such as List of public art in the London Borough of Hackney. {{Public art/header}} {{Public art/row}} {{Public art/header for bio}} {{Public art/row for bio}} {{Public art/footer}} Please keep all comments, annotations and references in the |notes= field.
Sample article layout (click on image for larger view) This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup, see Help:Editing; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of ...
Dalle de verre, from French: "glass slab", is a glass art technique that uses pieces of coloured glass set in a matrix of concrete and epoxy resin or other supporting material. Technique [ edit ]
A sample of the typeface Rockwell, a slab serif face based on the geometric model. A sample of the typeface Courier, a slab serif face based on strike-on typewriting faces. Slab serif lettering and typefaces appeared rapidly in the early nineteenth century, having little in common with previous letterforms.
1898 illustration of abacuses of many capitals in various styles. In architecture, an abacus (from the Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax), ' slab '; or French abaque, tailloir; pl.: abacuses or abaci) [1] is a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, above the bell.