![]() This was owned by businessman and Ferdinand Theinhardt, who was otherwise particularly famous for his scholarly endeavours in the field of and typefaces. Describes this as a common feature in German sans-serifs of the period and influenced by the tradition of, which uses a single-story 'g' in upright composition. The 'g' of Akzidenz-Grotesk is a 'single-storey' design, like in many other German sans-serifs, but unlike the double-storey 'g' found in most serif faces and in many of the earliest sans-serifs that had a lower-case. ![]() ![]() The capitals of Akzidenz-Grotesk are wide and relatively uniform in width. This is most visible in the quite folded-up of letters such as āaā and ācā. Modern type designer has described the general design of Akzidenz-Grotesk and its ancestors as similar in letterforms to the serif fonts that were standard printing types in the nineteenth century, such as, and their followers. This gives a sense of simplicity and an absence of the adornment and seen in many more decorative sans-serifs of the late nineteenth century influenced by the style. Like most sans-serifs, Akzidenz-Grotesk is 'monoline' in structure, with all strokes of the letter of similar width. ![]()
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