| 单词 | modern face |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmodern face 6. Typography. Designating any of a group of typefaces developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, distinguished by flat serifs and increased contrast between the thick and thin parts of the letters. Esp. in modern face. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > others modern1764 script1782 Caxtonian1811 Porsonian1813 antique type?1817 Aldine1837 Scotch1847 old-face1859 Times1860 old-faced1863 Fell type1883 Fournier1902 monotype1910 Goudy1933 monoline1962 slab serif1970 monospaced1972 1764 Oxf. Sausage 28 Cruel as the Mandate Of mitred Priests, who Baskett late enjoined To throw aside the reverend Letters black And print Fast-Prayers in modern Type! 1819 R. Austin in A. F. Johnson Type Designs (1934) iii. 97 The modern or new fashioned faced printing-type at present in use was introduced by the French, about 20 years ago. 1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 379/2 Modern faces, these are those kinds of Romans which have been cut since the beginning of the century. 1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. ii. 19 The much later form [of letter], exhibiting greater contrasts of thick and thin lines, constitutes a ‘modern face’ letter. 1934 A. F. Johnson Type Designs iii. 73 During the eighteenth century the design of our roman types underwent a radical change, resulting in the style which we know as modern face, the type of the nineteenth century and still the type used in our newspapers and most of our books. 1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 210 By the second decade of the nineteenth century English printers were using modern face almost exclusively. < as lemmas |
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