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Fading Fonts of Forgotten Print
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- 1. Once-dominant 18th-century English serif type widely superseded
- 2. Dutch old-style serif once revered, namesake of a historic printing house
- 3. Rare Renaissance serif lost to time and typographic evolution
- 4. A dense, rigid texture-like medieval typeface; Latin for 'woven fabric'
- 7. Obsolete typeface named after a famous American polymath, no longer modern
- 10. Technique turned typeface style now archaic, raised letter impression
- 11. Early mechanized print font system, now largely replaced by digital fonts
- 12. An archaic Germanic print style, shorthand for 'Gothic script'
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- 5. A foundational serif model from the Renaissance, now eclipsed by modern styles
- 6. Typographic relic named after a European region known for ornate types
- 8. Pertaining to a style derived from a long-obsolete English type founder
- 9. Gothic script with dense strokes, once reigning in medieval manuscripts
- 13. Obscure Italian typeface from the late Renaissance period, barely remembered
- 14. Early Venetian serif, seminal but overshadowed by its successors
- 15. Faded Renaissance font with elaborate swashes, rarely digitized today
- 16. A rounded medieval script, cousin to Blackletter but softer in form
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