Meaning of oldstyle | Babel Free

Definitions

A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.

attributive, often

Examples

“Books aimed at older and possibly vision impaired readers may have more difficulty with the generally lighter appearing transitional typefaces than they might with an oldstyle typeface.”

“A sentence set in an oldstyle serif and a similar-weight sans serif at the same point size will appear to be two different sizes.”

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