Thursday, December 22, 2011

Review Week 17

What I learned from this article is that the origin of the word serif can be traced back to ancient Rome because the stone carvers had to paint on the stones first and that caused them to have a little bit extra after the tetters and then the carvers would include that in their carvings. And that the term serif means something like "forms with/made with legs" in Chinese or "fish scales" in Japanese. And there two main types of serifs, Adnate and Abrupt. Adnate is more organic and Abrupt squarer and more rigid.

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