Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sans-serif lettering and typefaces were popular due to their clarity and legibility at distance in advertising and display use, when printed very large or small. Because sans-serif type was often used for headings and commercial printing, many early sans-serif designs did not feature lower-case letters.
Samples of sans-serif typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Agency FB Designer: Caleigh Huber & Morris Fuller Benton Class: Geometric : Akzidenz-Grotesk Designer: Günter Gerhard Lange Class: Grotesque : Amplitude Designer: Christian Schwartz Class: Humanist : Andalé Sans Designer: Steve Matteson Class: Humanist : Antique Olive ...
Squarish Sans CT v0.10 (1,756 glyphs; Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and more) STIX (especially mathematics, symbols and Greek, see also XITS) Titus Cyberbit Basic (free; updated version of Cyberbit. 9,779 glyphs in v3.0, 2000.) Verdana Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Sans Serif," extension of the Verdana typeface)
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Contrary to their current perception, in its early years, the Bauhaus school printed serif art nouveau typefaces. After some years of design work at the school, Herbert Bayer and Joost Schmidt created the more recognizable proposals—sans-serif geometric letterings, with decorative elements of the font removed for a crisp industrial style.
Some other adaptations have preserved the concept but changed genre, presenting sans-serif or script typefaces in the same style. [ 65 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 14 ] Antique Olive of 1966 by Roger Excoffon is a well-known sans-serif design with subtle reverse-contrast aspects, particularly visible in its ultra-bold "Nord" style, while Signo is a sans ...
Erbar or Erbar-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface in the geometric style, one of the first designs of this kind released as type. [1] Designer Jakob Erbar's aim was to design a printing type which would be free of all individual characteristics, possess thoroughly legible letter forms, and be a purely typographic creation.
Venus or Venus-Grotesk is a sans-serif typeface family released by the Bauer Type Foundry of Frankfurt am Main, Germany from 1907 onwards. [ 1 ] [ a ] Released in a large range of styles, including condensed and extended weights, it was very popular in the early-to-mid twentieth century.