Typophile - Anatomy of a Character - Comments

:) Danke. Man lernt nie

Sebastian Nagel — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:46:20 -0800

:) Danke. Man lernt nie aus...

Hans Rudolf Bosshard calls

Ulrike Borinski — Sun, 3 Feb 2008 08:36:59 -0800

Hans Rudolf Bosshard calls it »konkave Basis« may be »concave base«.
In the same book »Technische Grundlagen zur Satzherstellung«, Kehlung ist the Position above from serife to stem.

In german, this is called

Sebastian Nagel — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:30:37 -0800

In german, this is called “Kehlung”, which my dictionary translate as “hollow moulding (architecture)” (which might not be a good translation).

That serif is called a

Jos Buivenga — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:17:07 -0800

That serif is called a cupped serif. How the curve itself is called I don’t know.

Anatomy of a Character

richard_a — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:05:28 -0800

In the anatomy of a character,

What is the curve ( curved serif ) at the
foot/ bottom / baseline called ?