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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 old-style typefaces of Garamond and his contemporaries continued to be regularly used and kept in the stock of European typefounders until the end of the eighteenth century [n] and appear in the major French type foundry specimen books of the eighteenth century, of Delacolonge, [138] [139] Lamesle, [18] and Gando. [140]
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 ...
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 design retained a retrogressive old-style irregularity, smooth modeling from vertical to horizontal, and angled stressing of rounds (except a vertically stressed o). Fell capitals were condensed, even-width, with wide flattened serifs; all characteristics of the definitive modern romans of the late 18th century.
Claude Garamond. Claude Garamont (c. 1510 –1561), [1] known commonly as Claude Garamond, was a French type designer, publisher and punch-cutter based in Paris. [2] [3] Garamond worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type.
1.2 Historical background. ... of Times New Roman was "Times Old Style". ... Association suggests using Times New Roman in papers written in its APA style. [100 ...
Janson is the name given to a set of old-style serif typefaces from the Dutch Baroque period, and modern revivals from the twentieth century. [1] [2] [3] Janson is a crisp, relatively high-contrast serif design, most popular for body text.