Old Style Serif
オールドスタイル・ローマン / 15th–16th century– / Style / Type Classification
Set the standard for text faces that read without fatigue: the pen's oblique axis and gentle stroke contrast.
Oblique stress / Gentle contrast / Bracketed serifs / Modest x-height
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Setting the text of books and long-form media · A humanist, settled brand voice
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Claude Garamond / Nicolas Jenson / the Aldine roman