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the outfit a letter wears to work every single day.
means a designed set of letters, numbers, and symbols sharing one consistent visual style.
from from movable-type printing, where each physical letter was cast in metal and stored by its shared design as a face of type on the block.
not a fonttypeface is the design, font is one weight or size
helvetica birthcreated 1957 in switzerland, originally named neue haas grotesk
garamond agebased on a design from the 1540s, still everywhere
serifs originstone carvers added them to finish chisel strokes cleanly