Old and New Fashions in Typography

17th century abroad alphabet appearance ascending and descending bad ink Baskerville Basle beauty began Black letter boast Bodoni brief historical survey brilliant capital letters CASLON CIRCULAR character in typography contrast between thick copy dazzling delicate denotes the sound descending sorts Didot Dijck Dutch letter early Elzevir eminent England English founders epoch famous fancy letters favour finish flat serif France Froben furnished Garamond Geoffroy Tory German Gothic form grace Grandjean height Italian Jenson John Day legibility in type letter-founders lower-case matrices mediæval merit middle angle modern Roman need scarcely remind object to-night oblique top serif old artists old style Parisian Plantin popular present cen press printed produced proportion punch-cutter readers reduced regular retain their clearness Roman character Roman fount Roman letter round and clear round letters Royal Scotch scribes specimen straight strokes Subiaco supplied the type taste thick and thin thin strokes triangled type-founder Venetian venture to think width