Didone (/diˈdoʊni/) is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the...
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(opera), of 1640 by Francesco Cavalli Didone (typography), a genre of serif typeface Dido (disambiguation) Didone abbandonata (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Modern (section Typography)
Windows XP Another name for the typeface classification known as Didone (typography) Modern, a generic font family name for fixed-pitch serif and sans...
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Serif (category Typography)
In typography, a serif (/ˈsɛrɪf/) is a small line or stroke regularly attached to the end of a larger stroke in a letter or symbol within a particular...
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Hermann Zapf (section Introduction to typography)
Koch, son of Rudolf Koch. He spent most of his time there working in typography and writing songbooks. Through print historian Gustav Mori, Zapf came...
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In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). The...
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Filosofia (category Didone serif typefaces)
Filosofia Category Serif Classification Didone (typography) Designer(s) Zuzana Licko Giambattista Bodoni Foundry Emigre Variations Filosfia Parma...
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Vox-ATypI classification (redirect from Humanist (typography))
In typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces into general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted...
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while others may add more. Mrs. Eaves has a particularly large number. Didone fonts with swashes include Surveyor and ITC Bodoni. Sans-serif fonts with...
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Sans-serif (category Typography)
In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif (/ˈsæn(z) ˈsɛrɪf/), gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features...
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explores combining structural elements of both geometric sans-serif and Didone serif typefaces. The Dead history typeface was designed in 1990 by P. Scott...
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something of an intermediate between Didone typefaces and Baskerville's influence. The succession of more extreme "Didone" typefaces quickly replacing Baskerville's...
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American Typewriter Antiqua Arno* Aster Aurora News 706 Baskerville Bell (Didone classification serif type designed by Richard Austin, 1788) Belwe Roman...
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Computer Modern (category Didone serif typefaces)
"Didone", or modern serif font, a genre that emerged in the late 18th century as a contrast to the more organic designs that preceded them. Didone fonts...
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Bodoni (category Didone serif typefaces)
century and frequently revived since. Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the...
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Italic type (category Typography)
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as...
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Benton Modern (1997–2001) - revival of the Century type family, a large Didone body text family by Morris Fuller Benton of American Type Founders. Originally...
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all of these fell out of use with the arrival of the much more geometric Didone types of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They returned to popularity...
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Didot (typeface) (category Didone serif typefaces)
type-producing Didot family. The classification is known as modern, or Didone. The most famous Didot typefaces were developed in the period 1784–1811...
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Slab serif (category Typography)
In typography, a slab serif (also called mechanistic, square serif, antique or Egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like...
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Fat face (category Didone serif typefaces)
In typography, a fat face letterform is a serif typeface or piece of lettering in the Didone or modern style with an extremely bold design. Fat face typefaces...
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History of the Latin script (section Typography)
of English aitch. With the spread of printing, several styles of Latin typography emerged with typefaces based on various minuscules of the Middle Ages...
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Hobbes. Ovink, G. W. (1971-01-01). "Nineteenth-century reactions against the didone type model - II". Quaerendo. 1 (4): 282–301. doi:10.1163/157006971X00239...
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in any case, did not have bold versions); it is most associated with the Didone, or "modern" type of the early nineteenth century (and with the more recent...
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daughters. Gill chose Joanna for setting An Essay on Typography, a book by Gill on his thoughts on typography, typesetting and page design. He described it as...
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the United States from the early nineteenth century and is part of the "Didone" genre of type popular through the entire nineteenth century. Its design...
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Ellington (typeface) (category Didone serif typefaces)
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types had become quite mechanical and geometric under the influence of Didone designs such as Bodoni, Goudy spent his career developing old-style serifs...
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Typeface (category Typography)
applications, such as cartography, astrology or mathematics. In professional typography, the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally...
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Allegro (typeface) (category Typography stubs)
foundry of Frankfurt, and released in 1936. Allegro is inspired by the Didone style dating from around the start of the nineteenth century onwards, that...
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