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Detail of serif-less letterforms from Fig.II and III of plate 41: Piranesi's Plan of the Nymphaeum of Nero, Antichità Romane 1756. © from an original engraving owned by the author Jon Melton, emfoundry.com. Photo: Jon Melton
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Research Presentation: The True source of the Sans.
Abstract: The search for the origin of today’s commercial sans serif typography has become something of a 'holy grail' for type historians. The earliest known example of a deliberately geometrical ‘serif-less’ letterform was confirmed back in the late 1990s, on a plan-drawing title block for a ne...
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