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The History of Type Styles (reduced): Renaissance Humanist Old Style Transitional Modern or Didone Slab Serif Sans Serif or Grotesque
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Gothic: Imitating manuscript hands Humanist
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Old Style: Better font-cutting, so more thick/thin contrasts, better- defined serifs. The basis for most literary fonts up to today.
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Transitional: Baskerville as the classic Victorian font: Vertical stress, Stroke contrast, Horizontality for serifs
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The Moderns Known as Didones (after Didot), Most famous example is Bodoni
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Modern fonts or Didones in contemporary uses
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Slab Serifs: late-Victorian, but very important modern style, for instance typewriters (Courier)
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Sans Serif: Created in 19th c. by William Caslon (and called “grotesque”), but associated with 20th c. modernist architecture, and consequently science and engineering.
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Generic associations for typefaces Pulp Fiction Movie Posters Comic Books Album Covers
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Pulp Fiction
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Movie Posters
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Comic Books
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Popular Music Album Covers
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Heavy Metal fonts
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Type fonts (and hand-drawn type) imitating art styles, handwriting, and all sorts of other stuff
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Art Nouveau fonts: imitation of an arts and crafts style sweeping Europe in the early 20th century
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Art Deco fonts
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Hippie Fonts, Western Fonts, And so on…
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Imitative fonts: imitating other writing media, including design
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Don’t forget about: Italics Bold Bold Italic SMALL CAPS And, of course, effects such as Shadow HOLLOW and Shadow
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Also note that literally thousands of freeware fonts are available for download at sites like fontspace.com
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