- Serif (Slab Serif)
- Designers are Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler
- They created other typefaces such as Surveyor, MSL Gothic, Nobel, Gotham, Interstate
- Family members include bold, book, light, medium, italic, and semibold.
Old style is the idea of adhering to manuscript models in type design.
A sans serif (without serif) is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.
The stroke weight is used to describe the thickness of a line that helps make up a character in a font.
Small capitals are designed to match the x-height of lowercase letters.
An imaginary line drawn from top to bottom of a glyph bisecting the upper and lower strokes is the axis
A typeface that exhibits a change in the thickness of curved strokes, the inclination of the axis of the lowercase o is used to measure the angle of stress
Lining figures are a modern style of numerals where all figures are of the same height and rest on the baseline. Non lining figures do the opposite.
A ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.
Type Measurement:
Type is measured by points from baseline to baseline when set without any extra space being added between the lines. A type with a different visual size both take up the same depth from line to line.
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