单词 | antiqua font |
释义 | > as lemmasantiqua font General use as a modifier, as in antiqua font, antiqua letter, antiqua type, etc. ΚΠ 1884 Gaelic Jrnl. Feb. 62/1 The chief importance of the northern type of the Anglo-Saxon script arises from its having been the forerunner of the Caroline minuscule, and thus the parent of the so-called Roman or antiqua type of our books and newspapers. 1966 S.H. Steinberg 500 yrs. of Printing (ed. 2) i. 30 The original profusion of types..sorted itself out into two streams: on the one hand, the ‘antiqua’ founts of ‘roman’ and ‘italics’; on the other, the ‘gothic’ founts of ‘Fraktur’ and ‘Schwabacher’. All the names are fanciful inventions of later writers. 1990 D. Ó Cróinín & D. Ganz in tr. B. Bischoff Lat. Palaeography (1995) 147 The Venetian printer Aldus Manutius introduced it [sc. Italic] in 1501, decades after the humanistica had become the model for the antiqua letters. < as lemmas |
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