Indices : Terminology : Serif A serif is a flare at the end of a letter terminal. Serifs first appeared in ... or Egyptienne , Latin Serif , Greek Serif , Tuscan Serif , Italienne , and even Sans Serif (harhar!). ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 6 Dec 2006 - 8:59am - 0 comments

... an Italian equivalent to that term, since this is a "Tuscan" design. BTW, I think you can do much better than that ... to describe an ornate style of capitals with bifurcated serif treatments. A slang term that was used for this kind of serif was ...

Forum topic - antiphrasis - 9 Mar 2005 - 1:09am - 23 comments - 0 attachments

... looks a little out of shape in the sample) and the serif of the "d", but curiously in the Solotype Catalog (p.9) ... not so close but probably going to the same gym Gothic Tuscan Concave from Wooden Type Fonts. ... and ...

Forum topic - anonymous - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... fonts I'm trying to identify. The first is a sans serif used on many old industrial safety signs and still used by the Stonehouse ... to find out. The original name seems to be Antique Tuscan. It was produced digitally by Dan Solo. Here's the info from ...

Forum topic - anonymous - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... to fonts I think of something that's more like a Tuscan? Anyone? Caslon Antique... In the early 19th century, what we now call sans-serif typefaces were introduced. They were considered by some to be crude and ...

Forum topic - graficartist - 20 May 2003 - 1:07pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... In 1994 Carter designed Skia, a relaxed sans-serif inspired by ancient Greek letterforms. Unlike Adobe Lithos (which ... GRAPHICS brings out Frisco Antique Display, beautiful 'Tuscan' wood-type that quite simply reeks of the wild west. -- ...

News - lorp - 19 May 2004 - 4:11am - 0 comments - 0 attachments