Type Classification
書体分類
Dictionary entry
- Old Style Serif 15th–16th century– / Style
Set the standard for text faces that read without fatigue: the pen's oblique axis and gentle stroke contrast.
- Transitional Serif 18th century / Style
Raised the axis toward vertical, sharpened the contrast, and designed paper and ink together — type as a made object, independent of writing.
- Didone late 18th century– / Style
A constructed roman pushing the contrast of hairline and vertical stem to the limit — the Age of Reason's terminus and the sign of luxury at once.
- Slab Serif 1815– / Style
Square serifs as thick as the strokes turned letters into machine structures — the sturdy voice of industrial advertising.
- Grotesque Sans 1816– / Style
The unornamented letter that dropped its serifs was first called 'grotesque' — its quirky evenness became the new voice of notices and headlines.
- Neo-grotesque Sans 1957– / Style
The grotesque with its quirks removed and 'neutrality' set as the design goal — the voice of postwar rationalism and the global corporation.
- Geometric Sans 1927– / Style
Reduced letterforms to circle, line and triangle — building the new era's letters from geometry rather than the hand's habits.
- Humanist Sans 1916– / Style
Keeps the roman's skeleton and proportions without serifs — functional yet holding the hand's memory; the standard for public signage.
- Monospace 1874– / Style
Fixed-width letters born from the typewriter's mechanism, settled as the voice of work-in-progress: drafts, forms and code.