Bread script

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Example of a bread script: Baskerville

Bread fonts were fonts in which continuous or paragraph text was set. The origin of the term lies in the fact that typesetters earned their "daily bread" with the bread script . Occasionally, the terms are basic font , text type or copy font used.

Bread fonts are usually available in the font sizes 8 point ( petit ), 9 point ( Borgis ) and 10 point ( corpus ) as well as in numerous intermediate sizes . Well-known international bread magazines are, for example, the Baskerville , which Playboy magazine and many US magazines use, the Times after the newspaper of the same name, the Excelsior (many German newspapers) and the Minion (many specialist magazines).

In contrast to the bread font, there are the markup or title fonts, which are also known as commercial fonts .

Individual evidence

  1. Brotschrift , Typolexikon.de. The Lexicon of European Typography by Wolfgang Beinert, accessed on December 13, 2015
  2. Optimizing magazines , Kilian Kreb, Tübingen 2009, accessed on December 13, 2015 (PDF)
  3. Brotschrift , definition of terms on the preussner grafik design website, accessed on December 13, 2015