TYPOGRAPHY
Anatomy
Foundries/sources
- The League of Movable Type, an open source foundry
- Inter Font Family an open-source Helvetica clone
Serifs
Ascenders
Typeface styles
Old Style
Times New Roman
Palatino
Adobe Garamond
Adobe Caslon
Adobe Jenson
Palatino Linotype
ITC Berkley Old Style
Transitional
Created in France in 18th century by Englishman John Baskerville.
Baskerville
- High contrast with thin and thick strokes compared to old style
- Ascenders are more horizontal
- Vertical stress
Georgia
- Made by Microsoft
Bulmer
Bookman
- Wider letters
- Vertical stress
- Bracketed serifs
Perpetua
Didone
Comes after transitional. Portmanteau of Didot and Bodoni, two of the most popular typefaces in this category. Let’s find out more.
Bodoni
Linotype Didot
Bodoni Poster
Argo
Narziss
Ambroise
Domani
SF Kingston
Kerkis
Kerkis is an extension of bookman to include greek symbols
Old Standard
Old Standard reproduces a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later. However, this letter type still has at least two advantages:
- it can be considered a good choice for typesetting scientific papers, especially in social and humanitarian sciences, as its specific features are closely associated in people’s eyes with old books they learned on;
- the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all based on the classicist style, so for those scripts, “Modern” fonts are much more appropriate than any contemporary (e.g. Times-based) designs.
Transitional typefaces
Baskerville
Consider for Eink
- Bitter
- Palatino
- Literata
- Merriweather
- Baskerville
- Spectral
- Charter
- Source Serif Pro
- FS Brabo
- A2 Antwerp
- Typotheque Lava
- Linotype Malabar
- MVB Verdigris
- Klim Tiempos
- Alegreya
- Calluna
- Crimson Text
- Vollkorn