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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.
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 ...
Goudy Old Style (also known as just Goudy) is an old-style serif typeface originally created by Frederic W. Goudy for American Type Founders (ATF) in 1915.. Suitable for text and display applications, Goudy Old Style matches the historicist trend of American printing in the early twentieth century, taking inspiration from the printing of the Italian Renaissance without a specific historical model.
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Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text.It is a member of the "old-style" of serif fonts, with its regular or roman style based on a design cut around 1495 by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius, sometimes generically called the "Aldine roman".
Bitstream Cyberbit is a roman-only font released by Bitstream with an expanded character range intended to cover a large proportion of Unicode for scholarly use, with European alphabets based on Times New Roman. [188] [189] Bitstream no longer offers the font, but it remains downloadable from the University of Frankfurt. [190]
A “harridan” is a strict, bossy, belligerent old woman, and if your mind fills with images of nana in curlers, wielding a rolling pin, you nailed it! ... Old-timey bar by MarcJP46 (CC BY-SA)
A facsimile of Nicolas Jenson's roman type used in Venice c. 1470. The abstracted long "s" (resembling a barless "f") fell out of use in the 19th century. The word "Antiqua" written in the Antiqua style.