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Fading Fonts of Forgotten Print
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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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 Once-dominant 18th-century English serif type widely superseded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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