A Wisdom Archive on Serif - Modern

Serif fonts can be classified into one of four subgroups: old style, transitional, slab serif, or modern. Serif - Old Style. Old style typefaces date back to the 15th century, and are characterized by a diagonal stressing, subtle differences between thick and thin lines (low line contrast), and excellent readability. Old style typefaces are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy from which their forms were derived. The angled stressing of old style faces generates diagonal lock, which, when combined with their bracket serifs creates detailed, positive word-p ...

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In the Roman alphabet, serifs originated with the carving of words into stone in ancient Italy. Artisans would carve out a bit of extra space at the end of the long strokes of letters to prevent gravel and dust from collecting in the corners of the letters. The etymology of "serif" is obscure, but in any case almost as recent as the face. The oldest citations in the Oxford English Dictionary are 1841 for sans serif, which the OED gives as sanserif, and 1830 for serif. Indeed, the OED speculate ...

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Agrippas Angelic Alphabets were created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa who was perhaps one of the most famous occultists of his time and still bares a strong influence on the modern occultist. In Agrippa's Libri tres de occulta philosophia appears four different alphabets that this article concerns. Agrippa's three alphabets are known as Malachim, Celestial_Alphabet, and Passage Du Fleuve are all similar in terms of shape and style. All feature unusual serifs in the shape of circles, with thin script, and strong borrowing from G ...

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In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i.e., character) designs. A typeface is usually comprised of an alphabet of letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. Helvetica, Century Schoolbook, and Courier are three examples of typefaces. A typeface may also include or consist of ideograms and symbols (e.g., mathematical or map-making glyphs). The art of designing typefaces, called typ ... Including:

• Typeface - History
• Typeface - Typeface anatomy
• Typeface - Serifs
• Typeface - Proportionality
• Typeface - Measurements
• Typeface - Types of font
• Typeface - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces
• Typeface - Legal aspects of typefaces
• Typeface - Organizations

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The letter D is the fourth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is dee. D - History. The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. In Semitic, Ancient Greek (Modern Greek /ð/) and Latin the letter was pronounced /d/, in the Etruscan alphabet the letter was superfluous but still maintained (see letter B). Greek letter: Δ (capital) or δ (small) (Delta). The minuscule (lower-case) form of D, consisting of a loop and a tall vertical stroke, de ... Including:

• D - History
• D - Usage
• D - Alternative representations
• D - Computing
• D - Meanings for D

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Cursors feature in many of the interfaces between computers and their users. On CRT screens displaying character-based interfaces, the cursor originally (and sometimes still) manifests itself as a solid (or transparent) rectangle (or underscore) indicating the position of the next insertable character or (when back-spacing or over-typing) the next deletable character. Modern computers with a graphical user interface (GUI) usually display two cursors: the mouse pointer (often in the form of an arrow) which mo ...

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In typography, emphasis usually refers to means of stressing parts of a text by using letters in a different style from the rest of the text to make them stand out from the main text body. Emphasis typography - Methods and uses of emphasis. The human eye is very receptive to differences in brightness within a text body. One can therefore differentiate between types of emphasis according to whether the emphasis changes the "blackness" of text. A means of emphasis that does not have much effect on "bla ... Including:

• Emphasis typography - Methods and uses of emphasis
• Emphasis typography - Emphasis in design
• Emphasis typography - Alternative methods for emphasis
• Emphasis typography - Capitalization
• Emphasis typography - Letterspacing
• Emphasis typography - Special punctuation marks

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