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Century is a family of serif type faces particularly intended for body text. The family originates from a first design, Century Roman cut by American Type Founders designer Linn Boyd Benton in 1894 for master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, for use in his ''Century'' magazine. ATF rapidly expanded it into a very large family, first by Linn Boyd and later by his son Morris. Century is based on the Scotch Roman and Scotch Modern genres, two related styles of type of British origin which had been popular in the United States from the early nineteenth century. Its design emphasises crispness and elegance, with strokes ending in fine tapers, ball terminals and crisp, finely pointed serifs. Compared to some earlier members of the genre, stroke contrast is quite low, creating a less sharp and highly readable structure. Century falls into the Didone and to a lesser extent transitional genres of serif type, having some features of both. With ATF no longer operating, a wide variety of variants and revivals with varying features and quality are available. Despite originating in the nineteenth century, use of the typeface remains strong for periodicals, textbooks, and literature. The Supreme Court of the United States requires that briefs be typeset in Century family type. According to Charles Shaw, "The rugged simplicity of the Century family of types has made it an enduring favorite of American typographers for almost one hundred years. Beginning as foundry type, Century has withstood a series of technical transformations into Linotype, Monotype, Ludlow, phototype, transfer type, digital type, and Xerox-like 'toner type'."〔Shaw, Paul. "The Century Family" in ''Fine Print on Type.'' Edited by Charles Bigelow, Paul Hayden Duensing, and Linea Genry. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1989. ISBN 0-9607290-1-1, p. 46–9.〕 ==Distinctive characteristics== Characteristics of this typeface are: lower case: curl ending in a ball terminal on top of letter c. Ball terminal on hook of f, ear of g, and tail of j. upper case: curled tail on the capital R and reflexive curled tail on the capital Q. Prominent top spur on capital C. figures: curl ending in a ball terminal on both tails of 3, and on single tail of 2, 5, 6 and 9. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Century type family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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