Old Style: The style is characterized by a
diagonal stress (the thinnest parts of letters are at an angle rather than at
the top and bottom), subtle differences between thick and thin lines (low line
contrast), and excellent readability. Old style typefaces are reminiscent of
the humanist
calligraphy from which their forms were derived. An old style font normally has
a left-inclining curve axis with weight stress at about 8 and 2 o'clock; serifs
are almost always bracketed (they have curves which connect the serif to the
stroke); head serifs are often angled
Examples:
Transitional: They are in between modern and old style, thus the
name "transitional." Differences between thick and thin lines are
more pronounced than they are in old style, but they are still less dramatic
than they are in modern serif fonts.
Examples:
Bodoni, Didot, Bernhard Modern Roman, Aster
Slab Serif: (also called mechanistic, square serif
or Egyptian) typeface
is a type of serif
typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be
either blunt and angular, or rounded. Slab serif typefaces generally have no
bracket (feature connecting the strokes to the serifs).
Examples:
Sanchez, Kettering, Madawaska
Sans Serif: a
font without serifs
Examples: century gothic, Helvetica, futura, Arial
Stroke weight: the thickness of lines in a font character
Axis/Stress: An
imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph
bisecting the upper and lower strokes.
Small
caps: are uppercase
(capital) characters
set at the same height
and weight as surrounding lowercase
Lining
figures: are a modern style of numerals where all figures are of
the
same height (and typically larger than Old Style Figures
in the same font) and rest on the baseline.
Non-aligning
figures: numbers that don’t line up with the baseline.
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