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Subject:    Re: Re: [typo] Serif
Date:    Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:44:53 +0100 (CET)
From:    Jean-Marie Schwartz<jeanmarie_schwartz@xxxxxxxx>
Ici, il en est question (du _serif_) en tant qu'empattement :

The Practice of Typography: Plain Printing Types; a Treatise on the Process
...&#8206; - Page 315
de Theodore Low De Vinne - 1914 - 403 pages
... -collectors give it to all the older forms of black- letter, but American 
type-founders apply it to a sturdy type that has neither serif nor hair-line.


Notes and Queries&#8206; - Page 444
1869
There is such a family likeness between serif KaA schreef, that I hardly 
hesitate to say that '"serif" is a synonym of " stroke " or " scratch. ...


Moxon's Mechanick Exercises&#8206; - Page xiii
de Joseph Moxon, Theodore Low De Vinne - 1896
He advises that each letter should he plotted upon a framework of small squares

... Here are the broad hair-line, the stubby serif on the lower-case and the
...


Buddhist Texts from Japan&#8206;
de Friedrich Max Müller - 1881 - 265 pages
Page 70
Another modification of the serif is the small square, either hollow or filled 
in, ... the down-stroke of course protruded beyond the body of the letter*. ...


A text-book on plain lettering&#8206;
de Henry Sylvester Jacoby - 1895 - 82 pages
Page 20
... may not allow sufficient room for the addition of the adjacent serif on A. 
... it is necessary to determine the position, on each side of every letter,
...


Types of the De Vinne press: specimens for the use of compositors ...&#8206; -
Page 371
de De Vinne Press, TheDe Vinne Press - 1907 - 449 pages
JAVAL, A FRENCH OCULIST, Says that this Spur or Serif is of service in ...
MATES 
WELL With an Old-style Letter Capitals 39% 24-point Lower-case 30*3 A SERIF ...


Writing for the Press: A Manual&#8206; - Page 255
de Robert Luce - 1907 - 302 pages
ROMAN is the character preferred as a text-letter by all ... The serif is
short, 
angular, and stubby. The general effect is that of angularity. ...


Developing Learnin Materials&#8206;
de J. Gough - 1905 - 160 pages
Page 46
examples of serif typefaces below in Figure 11, you will notice that they all 
have rounded or square strokes (serifs) at the ends of each letter. ...


First Steps in Job Composition&#8206;
de Camille De Vèze - 1918 - 54 pages
Page 52
"SANS-SERIF"? Name used in England for letters which have no serifs. ... of the

stems of capital letters; this letter H has serifs, this letter H has not. ...


(?)
Hall Marks on Gold and Silver Plates: Illustrated with the Tables of Annual
...&#8206; - Page 104
de William Chaffers - 1875 - 238 pages
Date letter. 5. Maker. In 1720 the old marks revived. FIVE MARKS. 1. Lion 
passant. 2. ... 6. Maker's mark. These letters are Serif but not fac-similes.


American dictionary of printing and bookmaking: containing a history of
...&#8206;
de Wesley Washington Pasko - 1894 - 592 pages
Page 407
In new style such letters as T have a serif ending \ In the old style the
letter 
ends ". This peculiarity is found in all of the serifs which admit of it. ...

Et un lien intéressant :
<http://www.kellscraft.com/EssentialsofLettering/EssentialsofLetteringCh02.html
>.

JMS