Slab Serif
スラブセリフ / 1815– / Style / Type Classification
Square serifs as thick as the strokes turned letters into machine structures — the sturdy voice of industrial advertising.
Slab serifs / Even strokes / Sturdy letterforms / Mechanical repetition
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- 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
- Vincent Figgins, Antique (1815) / the Clarendon and Ionic lineage / 19th-century foundry specimens