antiqua
Noun
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antiqua (countable and uncountable, plural antiquas)
Alternative form of Antiqua (“typeface”)
Antiqua (countable and uncountable, plural Antiquas) (typography)
A style of typeface used to mimic styles of handwriting or calligraphy common during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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As of 2006, the genomic sequence of a strain of biovar Antiqua has been recently completed. citation Similar to the other pathogenic strains, there are signs of loss of function mutations.
A specific set of rules applies for the use of long s in German text, but nowadays it is rarely used in Antiqua typesetting.
In some Antiqua typefaces, this letter is present as a standalone letter or in ligatures.
Book Antiqua resembles Palatino extremely closely and is almost indistinguishable from the original apart from a few detail differences.
The notion of two distinct ways, a via antiqua, associated with realism, and a via moderna, associated with nominalism, became widespread only in the later fifteenth century – a dispute which eventually dried up in the sixteenth century.
These variants of the Latin alphabet are very different from the serif or sans-serif Antiqua typefaces used today, and the handwritten forms in particular are difficult for the untrained to read.