If typographers, designers, production men, and type designers are to communicate with one another about type, it becomes increasingly evident that, in the matter of typographic nomenclature, they must find a common ground. It is to this end the growing interest appears to be a rising in the international dialectic upon the subject of type [...]

Two type systems that agree—but only in part During the past 60 years, numberless attempts have been made to evolve the system by which printing types may be reasonably classified. Hopefully, this would ease the problems of type recognition by neophyte typographers and graphic designers when they first gaze upon an ordinary type specimen book. [...]

As long ago as 1958, the British Standards Institution, which conforms to the United States Bureau of Standards, published a pamphlet titled Typeface Nomenclature, which represents an attempt to systematize the terminology of a craft that had heretofore resisted such endeavors for over 500 years. There’s a reasonable amount of agreement on some printing trade [...]

British Standards 2961:1958 titled Typeface Nomenclature was published on January 31, 1958. It represents an attempt to systematize the terminology of a craft which had heretofore resisted such endeavors for over five hundred years. While there is a reasonable amount of agreement on some printing trade terms and it wouldn’t take very long for any [...]