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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.
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 ...
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]
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. It is characterized by: Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs. (The serifs have a nearly constant width along their length.)
The time and effort required to manually compose the text led to several efforts in the 19th century to produce mechanical typesetting. While some, such as the Paige compositor , met with limited success, by the end of the 19th century, several methods had been devised whereby an operator working a keyboard or other devices could produce the ...
The "Included from" column indicates the first edition of Windows in which the font was included. Included typefaces with versions ... Century Gothic [2] Sans Serif ...
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.
Century Gothic Class: Geometric : Charcoal (Mac OS 9 system font) Designer: David Berlow: Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: Susan Kare: Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist, Spurless : Clear Sans (Intel) Designer: Dan Rhatigan, George Ryan, Robin Nicholas : Clearview