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Before the term "sans-serif" became standard in English typography, a number of other terms had been used. One of these terms for sans-serif was "grotesque", often used in Europe, and "gothic", which is still used in East Asian typography and sometimes seen in typeface names like News Gothic, Highway Gothic, Franklin Gothic or Trade Gothic.
A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur(a), Rotunda, Schwabacher and Fraktur. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand.
Caslon Two Lines English Egyptian in an early specimen book [1]. Egyptian is a typeface created by the Caslon foundry of Salisbury Square, London around or probably slightly before 1816, that is the first general-purpose sans-serif typeface in the Latin alphabet known to have been created.
Radis Sans Designer: Gaël Goy Class: Geometric : Rail Alphabet Designer: Margaret Calvert, Jock Kinneir Class: Neo-grotesque : Raleway Designer: Matt McInerney Class: Geometric : Roboto Designer: Christian Robertson Class: Neo-grotesque : San Francisco Class: Neo-grotesque : FF Scala Sans Designer: Martin Majoor Class: Humanist : Segoe UI ...
Georgia Ref (also distributed under the name "MS Reference Serif," extension of the Georgia typeface) Gulim/New Gulim and Dotum, rounded sans-serif and non-rounded sans-serif respectively, (distributed with Microsoft Office 2000. wide range of CJK (Korean) characters. 49,284 glyphs in v3.10.)
Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards.. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground.
Signs using Johnston, in the London Transport Museum Acton archive. Johnston had become interested in sans-serif letters some years before the commission: although best known as a calligrapher, he had written and worked also on custom lettering, and in his 1906 textbook Writing and Illuminating and Lettering had noted "It is quite possible to make a beautiful and characteristic alphabet of ...
Various German language blackletter typefaces English blackletter typefaces highlighting differences between select characters Modern interpretation of blackletter script in the form of the font "Old English" which includes several anachronistic glyphs, such as Arabic numerals, ampersand (instead of Tironian et) and several punctuation marks ...