While there was no relationship between Egyptian writing systems and slab serif types, either shrewd marketing or honest confusion led to slab serifs often being called " Egyptians ".
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FF Meta Serif and Guardian Egyptian are examples of newspaper and small print-orientated typefaces that have at least some slab serif characteristics, often most visible in the bold weights.
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Because of the clear, bold nature of the large serifs, slab serif designs are also often used for small print, for example in printing with typewriters and on newsprint paper.
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For similar reasons they were also called " Egyptian " or " Reversed Egyptian ", Egyptian being an equally arbitrary name for slab serifs of the period .)
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Some fonts oriented towards small print use and printing on poor-quality newsprint paper may have slab serifs to increase legibility, while their other features are closer to conventional book type fonts.
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"' Archer "'is a slab serif typeface designed in 2001 by Tobias Frere-Jones and Jonathan Hoefler for use in " Martha Stewart Living " magazine.
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It is based on the slab serif style of typewriters; however, unlike most true typewriter fonts, it is a proportional design : the characters do not all have the same width.
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Display-oriented slab serifs are often extremely bold, intended to grab the reader's attention on a poster, while slab serifs oriented towards legibility at small sizes show less extreme characteristics.
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Display-oriented slab serifs are often extremely bold, intended to grab the reader's attention on a poster, while slab serifs oriented towards legibility at small sizes show less extreme characteristics.
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Slab serifs declined following the growing popularity of sans-serif faces, with which they always competed, and the revival of interest in old-style serif fonts as part of the Arts and Crafts movement.
