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2. List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Slab serif - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Ightham Mote - Wikipedia

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   Ightham Mote (/ ˈaɪtəm ˈmoʊt /), at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county". [1] Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.

5. Didone (typography) - Wikipedia

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   Didone (typography) Didot's type in the Code civil des Français, printed by the company of Firmin Didot in 1804. Didone (/ diˈdoʊni /) is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the 19th century. It is characterized by: Narrow and unbracketed (hairline) serifs.

6. Typeface - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.

7. List of serif typefaces - Wikipedia

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   Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Adobe Jenson Designer: Robert Slimbach Class: Old style : Albertus Designer: Berthold Wolpe Class: Glyphic : Aldus Designer: Hermann Zapf Class: Old style : Alexandria Designer: Hank Gillette Class: Slab serif Sub-class: Geometric: American Typewriter Designer: Joel Kaden & Tony Stan Class: Old style : Amiri ...

8. Manor house - Wikipedia

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   In France, the terms château or manoir are often used synonymously to describe a French manor house; maison-forte is the appellation for a strongly fortified house, which may include two sets of enclosing walls, drawbridges, and a ground-floor hall or salle basse that was used to receive peasants and commoners.

9. Clarendon (typeface) - Wikipedia

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   Clarendon is the name of 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 ...