On the history of sans serif

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On the history of sans serif Linotype had pages on the history of sans serif ("Grotesk" in German), from its inception in 1816 in England and the early versions of William Caslon and Vincent Figgins (1832), through the Akzidenz Grotesk (1900), Reform-Grotesk (1904) and Venus (1907).	EXTERNAL LINKS MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Typography ⦿ History of type ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Akzidenz Grotesk ⦿ Caslon ⦿

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file name: Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Poster by Andrea Canelo 2016

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file name: Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk Poster by Amin Qutteineh 2014

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