FONT TYPES & STYLES
TYPE CLASSIFICATIONS
• Most typefaces can be classified into one of four basic groups: those with serifs, those
without serifs, scripts and decorative styles. Over the years, typographers and scholars of
typography have devised various systems to more definitively categorize typefaces – some of
these systems have scores of sub-categories.
• A classification system can be helpful in identifying, choosing and combining typefaces. While
four categories are clearly inadequate for design professionals, dozens become self-
defeating.
CLASSIFICATIONS
Serif Type Styles
• Old Style
• Transitional
• Neoclassical & Didone
• Slab
• Clarendon
• Glyphic
Sans Serif Type Styles
• Grotesque
• Square
• Humanistic
• Geometric
Script Type Styles
• Formal
• Casual
• Calligraphic
• Blackletter & Lombardic
Decorative
• Grunge
• Psychedelic
• Graffiti
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Font types & styles

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    TYPE CLASSIFICATIONS • Mosttypefaces can be classified into one of four basic groups: those with serifs, those without serifs, scripts and decorative styles. Over the years, typographers and scholars of typography have devised various systems to more definitively categorize typefaces – some of these systems have scores of sub-categories. • A classification system can be helpful in identifying, choosing and combining typefaces. While four categories are clearly inadequate for design professionals, dozens become self- defeating.
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    CLASSIFICATIONS Serif Type Styles •Old Style • Transitional • Neoclassical & Didone • Slab • Clarendon • Glyphic Sans Serif Type Styles • Grotesque • Square • Humanistic • Geometric Script Type Styles • Formal • Casual • Calligraphic • Blackletter & Lombardic Decorative • Grunge • Psychedelic • Graffiti
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    I have useddafont.com in order to look at a range of different fonts and get different ideas in which I could use, these are just some examples of what I could use.
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    I have usedfontspace.com in order to look at a range of different fonts and get different ideas in which I could use, these are just some examples of what I could use.