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Transitional
Figure 3.13 Example of Transitional type
A few centuries later, font design was again refined, and this time the impetus came from France and the
Enlightenment movement. Fonts were created along the rationalist principles of the times. The strokes
were contrasted further with very thick main strokes and very thin sub-strokes, and the serif, which
capped the stroke, did not use bracketing (the rounding underneath the intersection of the two strokes).
The letterforms took on a look that implied they were constructed mathematically and anchored within
a grid. These new fonts broke with humanist and old style tradition and ceased to reference calligraphy.
Examples of transitional fonts include Baskerville, Bookman, Fournier, and Joanna (see Figure 3.13).
