old style type

Also known as: old face type

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In typography: Aesthetic qualities of the typographic page
…face—though Americans sometimes call it old style. In general, old faces were largely those types developed from c. 1722 to c. 1763 (dates of William Caslon and John Baskerville). Their letter forms had marked affinities with the penned letter styles of the scribes: they tended to squareness, there was little…
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