On the articles & courses & interviews page of this site is a link to Type Styles 101, by Jonathon Hoefler, which will answer a few of these questions. :-)
You might also be interested in an article written by Catherine Dixon on the topic of typeface classification. You can find her article on the St. Bride's site, here. Ms. Dixon spearheaded the program to catalog the archives at Central Saint Martin's College.
Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but thanks to alyce and Miss Tiffany for the pointers. As a newbie in the world of typefaces and type styles, this is extremely handy stuff.
22 Mar 2004 — 6:22am
On the articles & courses & interviews page of this site is a link to Type Styles 101, by Jonathon Hoefler, which will answer a few of these questions. :-)
http://typophile.com/articles/
22 Mar 2004 — 8:51am
OK Alyce, spell the man's name right!!
Jonathan Hoefler, my sincere apologies.
22 Mar 2004 — 8:39am
You might also be interested in an article written by Catherine Dixon on the topic of typeface classification. You can find her article on the St. Bride's site, here. Ms. Dixon spearheaded the program to catalog the archives at Central Saint Martin's College.
22 Mar 2004 — 8:43am
Almost forgot to mention Vox -- it is a PDF, but small.
22 Jan 2007 — 11:18am
Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but thanks to alyce and Miss Tiffany for the pointers. As a newbie in the world of typefaces and type styles, this is extremely handy stuff.
Oh, and the link to Type Styles 101 is now at http://typophile.com/courses/type101 but you all probably knew that already...