- Antiqua script
Antiqua
typeface s are those designed between about 1470 and 1600, specifically those by Nicholas Jenson and the Aldine roman commissioned byAldus Manutius and cut byFrancesco Griffo . Antiqualetterform s were modelled on a synthesis of Roman inscriptional capitals and Carolingian writing. They are also known asVenetian types .Antiqua's Germanic opposite is
blackletter , in which the letter forms are broken or "fractured". In 19th- and 20th-century Germany, there was a dispute over whether German should be written in antiqua or the highly-developed Fraktur blackletter.Antiqua script is also occasionally called old style, differentiated from modern styles by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.
ee also
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Bembo
*History of western typography
*Roman type
*Typography
*Old-style figures References
* Nesbitt, Alexander "The History and Technique of Lettering" (c) 1957, Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 0486204278 , Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 57-13116. The Dover edition is an abridged and corrected republication of the work originally published in 1950 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. under the title "Lettering: The History and Technique of Lettering as Design".
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