old style font
- noun
- Specialized
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tipografía antigua
- Many books use an old style font for their main text because it's easy to read.
Examples
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He preferred to print wedding invitations using an old style font for added elegance.
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Designers often choose an old style font for a classic or traditional look.
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The invitation used an old style font.
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I prefer using old style fonts for my projects.
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Designers often choose an old style font for a classic or traditional look.
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He preferred to print wedding invitations using an old style font for added elegance.
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Many books use an old style font for their main text because it's easy to read.
Synonyms
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A traditional-looking font like books from long ago with small difference between thick and thin lines
A style that looks like it is from earlier times
Antonyms
- Specialized
Letters that have small thin lines at the ends and strong vertical strokes, looking elegant
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a typeface in an old style' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'old' (not new), 'style' (manner/appearance), and 'font' (type design). This straightforward noun-noun composition follows common morphological and syntactic patterns (cross-linguistically attested), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun old style font comes from early printers who copied the look of old handwriting into a style of font, so the letters have small slanted ends and only small differences between thick and thin parts. That's why old style fonts are used to give a 'classic' or 'traditional' look and to make long text easy to read.