EX: Bembo, Caslon, Garamond, Jenson, Palatino
Transitional: Contrast between thick and thin strokes is more pronounced, bracketed serifs, and tall x-height.
EX: Baskerville, Caslon, Perpetua, Times Roman, and Adriane Text
Modern: Hairline serifs, No horizontal stress, no influence by handwriting
EX:Bodoni, Bauer Bodini, Walbaum, Bell, and Didot
Square Serif: mono weight, No stress, Uniform serifs
EX: Serifa, Rockwell, Memphis Clarendon, New Century Schoolbook, Stymie
Sans Serif: Oval shapes and variations in stroke thickness, human appearance
EX: Gill Sans, Meta, Frutiger, Akzidenz Grotesk, Franklin Gothic, Helvetica
Script: Based off of handwriting, similar to cursive, looser
EX: Blackadder, Edwardian, French, John Hancock, Kunstler
Blackletter: used through Europe, sometimes called Old English,
EX: Franktur, Schwabacher, Cursiva, Hybrida, Donatus Kalendar
Grunge:rebellious, most recent typographic wave, seen in magazines
EX:Template Gothic, Cyberotica, Truth, Nguyen's Droplet, Cantante
Monospaced: every glyph is the same width, W and M are wider, I is narrower
EX: Fixed, Courier, Letter Gothic, MS Gothic, Arial, HyperFont
PERPETUA:
Sans Serif or Serif: Serif
Designer: Eric Gill
Date: 1928
Classification: Transitional
Family Members: Roman, Italic, Small caps, Bold, Bold Italic, Bold Oldstyle, Bold Italic and Oldstyle
Baseline: bottom alignment of the letters
Cap Height: Height of the capital letters
x-Height: Height of the lowercase x
Serif Style: short strokes at bottom
Stroke Width: thickness of each letter
Apex: Peak of capital A
Final/ Terminal: beginning and end of the letter
Barb: Flat part on some capital letters
Spur: extras on the capital G
Ear: part that hangs off of a lowercase g
Loop: curve of g
Link: part that links one story with the other
One Story G/ Two Story G: curve and close up g is two story "handwriting" g is one
Tail: part that comes off of Q
Leg: farthest line on the right of capital K, P, R
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