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    hmmhasany4510
    Apr 04

    Early Sans Serifs Became Known

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    Around the beginning of the 1800s, though, new uses for text became popular: advertisements, posters, and large newspaper headlines – things designed to catch your eye. monospaced slab typeface Courier is an example of a monospaced slab typeface The Slab serif arrived to fill this need. They are basically modern typeface styles, fattened up with thick, block-like strokes. Most typewriter fonts are also slabs. The typewriter also introduced monospacing, or forming a typeface in which every glyph is the exact same width. Also known as: Egyptian, Square Serif, Mechanical Examples: Clarendon, Rockwell, Playbill, Courier. 7.


    Sans Serif _ Helvetica, Lucida Sans and Verdana typefaces Left to right: Helvetica, Lucida Sans and Verdana typefaces The word “sans” in French means “without.” So there you have it: sans serifs lack those little tabs and tails that, up until the 1830s, were in practice mandatory. People did not adapt to the change easily. as “grotesques” because people found them so ugly. After the grotesques, three other categories of sans serif emerged: Neo-grotesques (aka transitional, realist): Plain and easy to read; the famous Helvetica is one of these. Humanists: Slightly more calligraphic; they include Calibri, Lucida Sans and Verdana. Geometrics: Distinctly modern feel by being based entirely on geometric shapes; Futura and Century Gothic are examples. Futura and Century Gothic typefaces Left to right: Futura and Century Gothic typefaces That covers the major progression of typeface style over the centuries. If you’re thinking “wait, I see loads of typeface styles that don’t quite fit into any of those categories,” you’re totally correct. Since the advent of digital technology,

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