unbracketed serif

Dead History's strokes transition from unbracketed serifs and contrasting stroke width on the left side of characters to a mono-weighted sans-serif with soft, rounded terminals on the right.

His book comprises dozens of lovely vignettes, anecdotes that make a potentially dusty subject – the difference between a bracketed and unbracketed serif is not to everyone's taste – utterly compelling.

Bodoni had a long career and his designs evolved and varied, ending with a typeface of a slightly condensed underlying structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction.