The practice of typography; a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (1899)
De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914 · New York : The Century co. · leaf 336
culiarity is the angling of those parts oflines that are usually made with curves. It has alower-case alphabet only in the larger sizes. Antique italics of the old-fashioned l)lack-facestill have a place in some specimen liooks, butthey are out of style. A new form of light-facewith lower-case… … Italian may be classified as a variety of antique.It is a fat-faced roman with transposed stem andhair-line. To be hated, it needs but to be seen. ^ OLD ITALIiLn PACE No. 24, on pica body. I/EODERW ITALIAIT CONDEITSEDhas nine sizes, nonpareil to canon No. 25, on pica body. ITiLLIiLlT…
Printing · Typography
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