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Elephant
In typography, a fat face letterform is a serif typeface or piece of lettering in the Didone or modern style with an extremely bold design.
About Elephant
In typography, a fat face letterform is a serif typeface or piece of lettering in the Didone or modern style with an extremely bold design. Fat face typefaces appeared in London around 1805–1810 and became widely popular; John Lewis describes the fat face as "the first real display typeface." While decorated typefaces and lettering styles existed in the past, for instance inline and shadowed forms, the fat faces' extreme design and their issue in very large poster sizes had an immediate impact on display typography in the early nineteenth century. Historian James Mosley describes a fat face as "designed like a naval broadside to sock its commercial message ...
From the Wikipedia article “Fat face”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Elephant in a book
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q25345812 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).