Typeface Classification Serif Or Sans Serif?

Typeface Classification

Serif or Sans Serif? ABCDEFG ABCDEFG abcdefgo abcdefgo

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Typeface Classification

Typeface or font?

ABCDEFG Font: Adobe Jenson Regular ABCDEFG Font: Adobe Jenson Italic TYPEFACE FAMILY ABCDEFG Font: Adobe Jenson Bold ABCDEFG Font: Adobe Jenson Bold Italic Typography 1: Typeface Classification

Typeface Timeline

Blackletter Humanist Old Style Transitional Modern Bauhaus Digital (aka Venetian) sans serif

1450 1460- 1716- 1700- 1780- 1920- 1980-present 1470 1728 1775 1880 1960 Typography 1: Typeface Classification

Typeface Classification

The model for the first movable types was Blackletter (also know as Block, Gothic, Fraktur or Old English), a heavy, dark, at times almost illegible — to modern eyes — script that was common during the Middle Ages.

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Types based on blackletter were soon superseded by something a little easier Humanist (also refered to Venetian).. ABCDEFG ABCDEFG > abcdefg abcdefg Adobe Jenson Fette Fraktur Typography 1: : Typeface Classification

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The Humanist types (sometimes referred to as Venetian) appeared during the 1460s and 1470s, and were modelled not on the dark gothic scripts like textura, but on the lighter, more open forms of the Italian humanist writers. The Humanist types were at the same time the first roman types. Typography 1: : Typeface Classification

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Characteristics

1. Sloping cross-bar on the lowercase “e”; 2. Relatively small x-height; 3 Low contrast between “thick” and “thin” strokes 4 Dark visual tone

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Examples:

Jenson, Kennerley, Centaur, Stempel Schneidler, Verona, Lutetia, Jersey,

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The Old Style demonstrate a greater refinement of letterforms, Most likely a result of improved punch-cutter skills. Also first italic typeface. Characteristics:

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Characteristics: 1. Greater contrast between thick and thin strokes 2.Sharper in appearance, more refined. 3. More upright stress 4.Serifs on the ascenders are more wedge shaped

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Typeface Classification

Examples:

Goudy Old Style, Bembo, Palatino, Perpetua, Sabon and Weiss,

ABCDEFG > ABCDEFG abcdefgo abcdefgo Goudy Old Style Adobe Jenson

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The first Transitional (or Neoclassical) style typeface, the Romain du Roi or King’s Roman, commissioned by Louis XIV for the Imprimerie Royale in 1692.

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Transitional was much less influenced by handwritten letterforms.

Characteristics: 1. Vertical or almost vertical stress in the bowls of lowercase letters.

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Characteristics: 2. greater contrast between thick and thin (sub-) strokes:.

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Characteristics: 3. Head serifs generally more horizontal:.

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Examples:

Baskerville, Cheltenham, Fournier, Joanna, Caslon, Kepler

ABCDEFG ABCDEFG > abcdefgo abcdefgoBaskerville Goudy Old Style

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The Moderns or Didones take this contrast to further extremes

Characteristics: 1. High and abrupt contrast between thick and thin strokes; 2. Abrupt (unbracketed) hairline (thin) serifs 3. Vertical axis 4. Horizontal stress 5. Small aperture

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The Moderns or Didones take this contrast to further extremes

Examples:

Linotype Didot, Bauer Bodoni, ITC Bodoni, Modern 20

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Also known as Egyptian, Square Serif, Mechanical or Mécanes.Developed primarily for advertising.

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Eventually became fine tuned, with subtler design

Characteristics of Clarendon: 1. larger x heights 2. thinner serifs 3. bracketed serifs

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Eventually became fine tuned, with subtler design

Examples:

Clarendon, American Typewriter, Caecila, Memphis, Rockwell, Archer

ABCDEFG abcdefgo Memphis Typography 1: : Typeface Classification

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Sans Serif Geometric: Sans-serif typefaces influenced by the Bauhaus movement and featuring circular or geometric letters, with little variation in stroke thickness. Some sans-serif types are built around geometric forms. In Futura, designed by Paul Renner in 1927, the Os are perfect circles, and the peaks of the A and M are sharp triangles.

Examples: Futura, Foilio, Gotham, Avant Garde

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Sans-serif Humanist Typefaces with oval shapes and variations in stroke thickness to create a more graceful, human appearance. *Sans-serif typefaces became common in the twentieth century. Gill Sans, designed by Eric Gill in 1928, has humanist characteristics. Note the small, lilting counter in the letter a , and the calligraphic variations in line weight.

Examples: Gill Sans, Meta, Frutiger

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Sans-serif Grotesque or Grotesk The first sans-serif designs developed in the 19th century, and considered grotesque by the English. *Helvetica, designed by Max Miedinger in 1957, is one of the world’s most widely used typefaces. Its uniform, upright character makes it similar to transitional serif letters. These fonts are also referred to as “anonymous sans serif”

Examples: Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Univers, Helvetica

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