Meaning of oldstyle | Babel Free
Definitions
A traditional style of typeface designed to mimic the handwriting of scribes.
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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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