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Typography · Serif classes

Didone

Hairline serifs and extreme stroke contrast: Bodoni, Didot.

A design choice in Stylogeny’s vocabulary, under typography: what do the letters look like, and how are they set?

styles make it: 10
as a defining choice: 1
as a usual one: 5
now and then: 4
avoid it: 1

Styles defined by it 1

For these styles it is one of the choices that make the style.

Neoclassical Book Typography1757–1830 · Western Europe, Southern Europe, Central EuropeThe Enlightenment book stripped of Renaissance woodcut decoration.

Styles that often use it 5

A characteristic choice: usual in these styles, though not essential.

Styles that use it now and then 4

An occasional choice in these styles.

It often goes with

Choices that the styles making it make more often than the atlas as a whole.

Slab serifin 5 of 10
Letterpressin 6 of 10
Layered informationin 7 of 10
Rules & barsin 6 of 10
Naturalistic depictionin 7 of 10
Line illustrationin 8 of 10

Styles that avoid it

Styles that deliberately leave it out.

Arts & Crafts Movement1860–1920

Other choices in typography