Linear Antiqua

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Helvetica (a sans serif font)
Rockwell (an Egyptienne font)

Linear Antiqua are fonts that belong to the Antiqua fonts and in which the letters have no or only insignificant differences in line width .

There are two types:

  • the sans serif linear Antiqua or Grotesk in which the serifs are missing the letter
  • as well as the serif-emphasized Linear-Antiqua or Egyptienne , in which the serifs of the letters are strongly emphasized.

The font used on German traffic signs is a sans serif linear antiqua according to DIN 1451-2.

Demarcation

There are also typefaces with (almost) constant stroke widths that do not belong to the Antiqua typefaces and therefore also not to the Linear Antiqua, such as the broken sans serif fonts .