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Morison, Stanley: Times New Roman sample Illuminated manuscript page with Latin text in gold and black ink, featuring large gold letters at top and bottom and smaller black text in the center, from a 1505 Roman inscription collection. Japanese typefaces A large, red and white capital letter G diagram labels key typeface features: barb at the top, curved stroke on the left, serif at the upper right, bracket connecting the serif, and spur at the lower right. Ornate wood type specimen sheet from 1888 by E. Toni and C., featuring colorful decorative letters, elaborate borders, and names like Gutenberg, Elzevir, Bodoni, and Castaldi. Two pages from Virgil's Opera printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, showing early italic typeface with decorative headings and an illustration at the bottom of the lower page. A page from the Gutenberg 42-line Bible showing two columns of dense black Latin text with an ornate capital letter in the center. early roman face types Pages from Virgil's Opera printed by Aldus Manutius in 1501, featuring Latin text in both upright and italic typefaces. Printed page from the Imprimerie Royale specimen book showing Philippe Grandjean's Romain du Roi typeface, with samples of roman and italic text in French and Latin.
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Morison, Stanley: Times New Roman sample
Morison, Stanley: Times New Roman sample Stanley Morison designed the typeface called Times New Roman.

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Former Vice President and Emeritus Custodian, John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, Newberry Library, Chicago. Author of The Scholar Printers; "Book Typography in the U.S.A." in Book...
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typography, the design, or selection, of letter forms to be organized into words and sentences to be disposed in blocks of type as printing upon a page. Typography and the typographer who practices it may also be concerned with other, related mattersā€”the selection of paper, the choice of ink, the method of printing, the design of the binding if the product at hand is a bookā€”but the word typography without modifier most usually denotes the...

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