FIVE CLASSIC TYPEFACES and characteristics
Type Classification Exercises (same basic layout for all five typefaces)
Old Style:
1615
Other examples of Old Style Typefaces:
Adobe Caslon Pro
Caslon
Garamond Premier Pro
Garamond
Adobe Garamond Pro
Garamond
Goudy Old Style
Goudy Old Style
and more:
Dante, Adobe Jenson, Palatino
Aldine, Bembo, Caslon, Dante, Galliard, Palatino, Plantin, Sabon
Transitional:
1757
Other examples of transitional typefaces:
Georgia
Times
Times New Roman
Joanna
Perpetua
Bulmer, Cochin, Fairfield, Janson Text, Mrs Eaves, Usherwood, Veljovic Book, Zapf International
Modern:
Didot (link to Bodoni)
1784-1811
Other examples of modern typefaces:
Modern No. 20
Bodoni, Didot
Bernhard Modern, Fenice, Filosophia, Modern, Modern Wide, Torino, Waldbaum
Egyptian/
Slab Serif:
1915
Other examples of Egyptian typefaces:
Century, 1894
Clarendon, Rockwell
City, Egyptian, Glypha, Lubalin Graph, Quadraat, Serifa, Stymie, Swift
Sans Serif:
1957
Other examples of San Serif typefaces:
Franklin Gothic Book
Franklin Gothic Medium
Futura
Gill Sans
Grotesque, Franklin Gothic, Frutiger, Meta, News Gothic, Optima, Syntax, Trade Gothic
Akzidenz Grotesque, Meta, Scala Sans, Univers
