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Some fonts oriented towards small print use and printing on poor-quality newsprint paper may have slab serifs to increase legibility, while their other features are closer to conventional book type fonts. Slab serif fonts were also often used in typewriters, most famously Courier, and this tradition has meant many monospaced text fonts intended ...
The classification began in the mid-nineteenth century concurrent with the Industrial Revolution. It is characterized by serifs that are similar in weight to the character stroke, in contrast to other serif faces where the serif is a minor finishing flourish.
Roboto Slab Designer: Christian Robertson Class: Slab serif : Rockwell Class: Slab serif : Rotis Designer: Otl Aicher Class: Other : Sabon Designer: Jan Tschichold Class: Old style : Serifa Designer: Adrian Frutiger Class: Slab serif : Source Serif Pro Designer: Frank Grießhammer Class: Transitional : Souvenir Designer: Morris Fuller Benton ...
Zilla Slab is a free to use, open source slab serif font commissioned by the Mozilla Foundation [2] as a part of their rebranding process from mid-2016 to 2017. [3] [4] [5] It was created in 2017 by Peter Biľak and Nikola Djurek, [2] typeface designers for the Typotheque foundry.
Slab serif lettering and typefaces originated in Britain in the early nineteenth century, at a time of rapid development of new, bolder typefaces for posters and commercial printing. Probably the first slab-serif to appear in print was created by the foundry of Vincent Figgins, and given the name "antique". [4]
Roboto Slab is a slab serif font based on Roboto. It was introduced in March 2013, as the default font in Google's note-taking service Google Keep. [18] (The font was changed to the sans-serif Roboto in 2018.) [19] It is available in four weights: thin, light, regular and bold. However, no oblique versions were released for it.
Rockwell is a slab serif typeface designed by the Monotype Corporation and released in 1934. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The project was supervised by Monotype's engineering manager Frank Hinman Pierpont . This typeface is distinguished by a serif at the apex of the uppercase A , while the lowercase a has two storeys.
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface commissioned by IBM and designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler (1919–1999) in the mid-1950s. [1] [2] The Courier name and typeface concept are in the public domain.