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Clarendon is a slab serif typeface that was released in 1845 by Thorowgood and Co. (or Thorowgood and Besley) of London, a letter foundry often known as the Fann Street Foundry. The original Clarendon design is credited to Robert Besley , a partner in the foundry, and was originally engraved by punchcutter Benjamin Fox, who may also have ...
This list of samples of serif typefaces details standard serif fonts used in printing, classical typesetting and printing. List of samples
As a result, new styles of lettering and "display type" began to appear, such as "fat face" bold faces, sans serif letters, apparently inspired by classical antiquity, and then slab-serifs. [24] [3] [25] These letterforms were a new departure and not simply larger versions of traditional serif letters.
Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing application for macOS, Windows.It is Serif's third mac app. Affinity Publisher includes StudioLink technology, [7] developed by Serif, which allows owners of Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo to use the vector and raster graphic editing functionality of those applications for editing content directly within Publisher [8] [9] (in addition to its own ...
Angles of white space, as in W w, are corners (w has three corners); the term is not used for angles of strokes. The small corner formed by a serif, whether curved or angular, is called the serif bracket. Inter-letter space can be reduced with kerning. A kern is the part of a letter that intrudes into the "box" of an adjacent glyph.
Lucida (pronunciation: / ˈ l uː s ɪ d ə / [2]) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. [3] [4] The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand).
The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free and open-source fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono.They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Communications, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's orthography reform and to create a font family that supported all the ...
Just as Clarendon typefaces took the "Didone" or modern-face model as a basis for a slab-serif, it is based on their "Old Style" design inspired by type designs of the eighteenth century, made slightly bolder and lower in contrast. Originally intended for use as a bolder type for emphasis, it was often used for general-purpose body text for ...