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Classification

The document provides a classification of typefaces based on their stylistic characteristics. It divides typefaces into categories such as Old Style, Transitional, Modern, Display, Slab or Egyptian, Sans Serif, Humanist, Grotesque, and Geometrical. Each category is defined by the shapes of letters such as curved characters, serifs, and contrast of thick and thin strokes. Examples of typefaces that fit within each classification are also provided.

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Classification

The document provides a classification of typefaces based on their stylistic characteristics. It divides typefaces into categories such as Old Style, Transitional, Modern, Display, Slab or Egyptian, Sans Serif, Humanist, Grotesque, and Geometrical. Each category is defined by the shapes of letters such as curved characters, serifs, and contrast of thick and thin strokes. Examples of typefaces that fit within each classification are also provided.

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Classification

• Closer to handwritten tradition (wedge ascenders • Goudy Old Style


and oblique brush like shapes) • Palatino
Old style • The curved characters have an angled stress • Garamond
• Thick and bracketed (rounded) serifs • Bembo
• Smaller x-height
Serifs

• Sharper and flatter serifs • Baskerville


Transitional • More contrast between thin and thick strockes • Georgia
• More upright angle in rounded letters • Times New Roman

• Extreme contrast between thin and thick strokes


Modern • No curves connecting the steams with serifs • Bodoni

Display
• Curved letters are sitting straight • Didot
• They may be serifs,
sans serifs or scripts
• The most varied
Slab or • Serifs and steams have the same weight
• Rockwell
• Museo forms and shapes,
Egyptian • Lubalin made with no
constrictions
• Good for logos and
headlines, not so
• Gills Sans good for copy text
Humanists • Contrast in strokes and more organic overall look • Myriad
• Calluna Sans
Sans

• Uniform strokes • Helvetica


• Rounded shapes are more oval
Grotesque • Larger x-height
• Univers
• News Gothic
• Larger counter spaces

• Futura
Geometrical • Made out of geometrical forms • AvantGarde
• Century Gothic

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