oldstyle
A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.
Noun
- A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.
- Books aimed at older and possibly vision impaired readers may have more difficulty with the generally lighter appearing transitional typefaces than they might with an oldstyle typeface. - 2005, Pete Masterson, Book...
- A sentence set in an oldstyle serif and a similar-weight sans serif at the same point size will appear to be two different sizes. - 2014, Timothy Samara, Design Elements, 2nd Edition:
Origin
old + style