Sans-serif
The Grotesque, also sans serif (French for without serif ',' sans-serif ') is a derived from the Antiqua font family, at the stroke width of the letters ( nearly) evenly and has no serifs.
In the English -speaking world the name is familiar rulers, ruler of France, the Netherlands and linear in Italy linearity.
To designate
The term grotesque is very common in the professional world. It refers to the fact that the first writings of this type as grotesque, so a strange, but quite charming disfigurement were considered, because the omission of the serifs contradicted all reading habits.
To date, Serifentypen are the basic form in printing industry. The benefits play the sans serif fonts only in the Webtypographie from where the serifs hardly improve readability, and in particular decrease at small sizes. Grotesque faces have just formed, on screens good displayable glyphs and are thus nowadays the default font on computer systems; the name Grotesque therefore seems strange why the names Sans serif or sans serif are common in the desktop publishing industry.
History
The Grotesque emerged as the slab serif beginning of the 19th century in England as a response to the increased demand for eye-catching promotional literature.
1803 showed Robert Thorne for the first time a sans serif. The first Grotesk was published in 1816 by William Caslon IV, the great-grandson of William Caslon type founder.
Sans serif fonts were from 1832 as striking display fonts in England very popular. First, the forms of this script were very strong. Meanwhile, however, many variants are offered, from the super-light and " lean" on vigorous and semi-bold shapes that extra fat. An example would be to call the Helvetica font, of which there are now over forty versions. One of the oldest sans serif is the Akzidenz-Grotesk, which began in 1898 and the first successful bread writing was after the Roman Sans Serif had previously only as a display typeface importance.
Beginning of the 20th century, the original grotesque form continued to develop in two directions. As part of the renaissance of the manuscript and the private press movement in England sans-serif fonts, the clearer the classic proportions and the letter was followed, such as Edward Johnston's typeface for the London Underground from 1916 or Eric Gill's Gill Sans in 1929. This variant arose is also known as linear sans referred. Around 1920 " (quote Jan Tschichold in the new typography ) originated in Germany in search of " the signature of our time, however, geometric sans serif like Futura 1927.
Sans serif typefaces first found application especially in occasion stationery ( commercial work ), the advertising and signage systems. Today, to be found in all areas of design, especially in typography for the screen. Nowadays, the wide range of sans serif fonts is highly visible, indicating the increased importance of these writings.
Features
At first glance, the writings of the sans serif Antiqua have a uniform stroke thickness. But that just seems so, because actually be different line thicknesses to produce an optically uniform image. This becomes clear when the overflows (eg, a and n ) to the curves and in the newer sections.
In the font Gill Sans ( by Eric Gill) is the shape of the a and g characteristic. In the German -speaking world, these two letters were not accepted, so a more common form was created to distribute this font better.