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2 unusual facts about Serif


Serif

The explanation proposed by Father Edward Catich in his 1968 book The Origin of the Serif is now broadly but not universally accepted: the Roman letter outlines were first painted onto stone, and the stone carvers followed the brush marks which flared at stroke ends and corners, creating serifs.

Father Edward Catich, The Origin of the Serif: Brush writing and Roman letters, 1991, Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Vancouver, BC, Canada


Croscore fonts

The fonts were developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation as Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif, which are also used for the Liberation fonts licensed by Red Hat under another open source license.

East Asian gothic typeface

The term “gothic” is now rare in English, having been largely replaced by "sans-serif" except in the names of some typefaces such as "Century Gothic".

FF Scala

FF Scala is an old style, humanist, serif typeface designed by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor in 1990 for the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

G-Stoned

The cover of G-Stoned bears a black and white photograph of both artists with sans-serif title lettering closely mimicking the cover of the renowned Bookends album of the famous folk duo Simon & Garfunkel.

GE U28CG

The yellow and black separation lines between the red and silver were absent, and the bodyside 'Santa Fe' lettering was large, billboard-style, in a Cooper Black typeface, instead of the smaller black serif all-caps version previously used.

Hippolytus Lutostansky

Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide, London: Serif, 1967/1996, pp.

Photograph album

Examples are Fotoslate 4 from ACD Systems, Scrapbook Factory from Nova Development, and products from printer OEM’s such as HP, Epson and Canon, as well as offerings from Serif and Corel.

Şerif Pasha

Mohammed Serif Pasha (1865, Üsküdar, Istanbul - December 22, 1951; Catanzaro, Italy), was an Ottoman diplomat.

Yule House

In sans-serif Eric Gill style letter face, ‘YULE HOUSE,’ is embossed in plate metal above the entrance on the first floor horizontal beam.


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