Wedged Serifs
Horizontal Cross Bar
Old Style Upright Slanted Stress
History The main characteristics of oldstyle typefaces are low contrast with diagonal stress, cove or bracketed serifs, and a handwriting influence. The earliest old style typefaces have very minimal contrast, and a sloped cross-bar on the lower-case “e”. Renaissance old style typefaces were created in Italy and France.
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Application Excellent for large amount of body texts. Old Style figures blend in well within a paragraph of text while lining figures work well with all caps and when alignment is more important than blending in.
Wishing Crane It is said that a thousand folded cranes, one for each year of its life, makes a wish come true. After the end of World War II, the folded origami cranes also came to symbolize a hope for peace through Sadako Sasaki and her unforgettable story of perseverance.
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