Monday, October 27, 2008

Cheltenham vs Clarendon

  • Clarendon thicker set width
  • Clarendon has ball terminals compared to teardrop ones on Cheltenham
  • Cheltenham is old-style compared to the slab-serif Clarendon
  • The tail in the capital Q of Clarendon goes inside and out.
  • The lowercase g in Cheltenham is closed.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Centaur vs Century oldstyle

    * Century Oldstyle as more weight than Centaur

    * Also, CO seems to have a taller stress

    * CO has tear drop terminals

    * The Centaur's capital Q, regular and italic, has a tail that goes below other characters.

    * Centaur has it's serifs unbracketed compared to COs

    * The $ sign in Centaur has a stem going down the entire spine, while COs just sit on top of the -shoots