THE CLASSIFICATIONS
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the San Serifs
the
Humanist
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The most legible of the sans
serif typefaces. Humanistic
sans serif typefaces also closely match the design characteristics and properties of serif types.
the
Grotesque
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These fonts are the first commercially popular
sans serif typefaces. Think
Helvetica and Univers.
the
Geometric
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Perfect geometry is fluent throughout most of the type faces.. Most noticeably, in
the "o." These faces least
legible of the San Serifs
The Serifs
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the
Old Style
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the
Transitional
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the
Egyptian
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the
Modern
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The Old Style or Humanist serif typefaces. Created in the 15th
and 16th centuries. Know for
low contrast in stroke weight
and angled serifs.
The bridge between Old Style
and Modern serifed typefaces. Transitional type is more vertical with sharper serifs than the Old Style forms.
Slab-serifed, typefaces have heavy serifs and were used for advertising and headlines because the heavy serifs imped legibility especially when small.
Modern or neoclassical serifed typefaces created in the late 18th early 19th century and were a radical break from the traditional typography of the time with high contrast of strokes, straight serifs with elongated vertical height.
Fonts
Adobe Jenson
Bell
Bembo
Garamond
Goudy Old Style
Minion
ITC legacy serif
Caslon
Sabon
Fonts
Frutiger
Gill Sans
Optima
Cantarell
Fira Sans
Goudy Sans
Fonts
Futura
ITC Avant Garde
Neo Sans
Century Gothic
Avenir
Gotham
Fonts
Helvetica
Univers
Impact
Arial
Nimbus Sans
Fonts
Baskerville
Century type family
Georgia
Mrs Eaves
Times New Roman
Bulmer
Perpetua
Joanna
Miller
Fonts
Clarendon
Rockwell
Serifa
Concrete Roman
Courier
American Typewriter
Guardian Egyptian
Lexia
Archer
Fonts
Bodoni
Aster
Bernhard Modern
Didot
Surveyor
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THE DISTINCTIONS
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