| 词条 | Legibility Group |
| 释义 |
The Legibility Group is a series of serif typefaces created by the American Mergenthaler Linotype Company and intended for use in newspapers on Linotype's hot metal typesetting system. They were developed in-house by Linotype's design team, led by Chauncey H. Griffith, and released from 1922, when the first member, Ionic No. 5, appeared.[1][2][3][4] Griffith's aim with the Legibility Group typefaces was to create a design with more body than the rather spindly Didone typefaces previously standard in newspaper printing.[5] To this end, the designs have low contrast in stroke weight, wide open counters and ball terminals, intended to make the letters clearly distinguishable even when printed on poor-quality newsprint paper. The Legibility Group typefaces were extremely popular and remained used by many newspapers worldwide throughout the metal type period and beyond; many other newspaper typefaces from other foundries such as Intertype were created based on their design. A notable exception is Monotype's Times New Roman, which was created to take advantage of the unusually high standard of printing of the Times in the 1930s.{{efn|Times New Roman's bold weight, however, is more similar to the Legibility Group style.[5]}} In 1972, British printing manager Allen Hutt commented that "the majority of the world's newspapers are typeset in one or another of the traditional Linotype 'Legibility Group', and most of the rest in their derivatives."[1] TypefacesThe family became a large group due to the creation of slightly different designs for different printing conditions, such as levels of inking used in different newspaper production processes and versions with different x-heights.[6]{{efn|A modern method similar to this is font grades, different designs of digital font intended to compensate for different amounts of ink spread.[7]}} Linotype carried out a survey of optometrists as part of their research process.[8]
Although not part of the family, Linotype marketed its sans-serif family Metro and slab serif face Memphis as effective complements for headings.[13] Design styleThe Legibility Group faces resemble the "modern" or Didone faces of the nineteenth century, with ball terminals, a curled leg on the "R" and a looped "Q". However, stroke contrast is limited and the apertures are held wide open to clearly differentiate letters. As the name "Ionic No. 5" suggests, the "legibility group" typefaces resembled slab serif typefaces of the nineteenth century, variously called "Clarendon" or "Ionic", but it is modified from these to have a build suitable for body text.[14] Hutt suggests that the design was based on the popular family of the name Ionic from Miller & Richard and copies from other foundries, slightly bolder than was considered normal for body text during the late nineteenth century.[15] G. Willem Ovink, however, has argued that a more direct influence (although not on the italic) was American Type Founders' Century Expanded, also a Didone face with reduced contrast, but that Linotype were unwilling to admit any influence from a competitor's work and so chose a name suggesting a more distant inspiration.[16] References1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Hutt|first1=Allen|title=The Changing Newspaper: typographic trends in Britain and America 1622-1972|date=1973|publisher=Fraser|location=London|isbn=9780900406225|pages=100–2 etc|edition=1. publ.}} 2. ^{{cite book|author=Victor Margolin|title=World History of Design|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HepgBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA445|year=2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-1-4725-6651-5|pages=445–6}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Alexander S. Lawson|title=Anatomy of a Typeface|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FiJ87ixLs0sC&pg=PA277|date=January 1990|publisher=David R. Godine Publisher|isbn=978-0-87923-333-4|pages=277–294}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Rotary International|title=The Rotarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35|date=January 1940|publisher=Rotary International|pages=35–8|ISSN=0035-838X}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|last1=Tracy|first1=Walter|title=Letters of Credit|pages=82, 194–195}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Arnold|first1=Edmund C.|title=Functional Newspaper Design|pages=23–9}} 7. ^{{cite web|last1=Butterick|first1=Matthew|title=Equity: specimen & manual|url=http://www.mbtype.com/pdf/equity-type-specimen.pdf|publisher=MBType|access-date=7 August 2015}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=The Linotype Bulletin, Volume 19, Issues 1-2|date=1929|pages=10, 29}} 9. ^{{cite web|last1=Gaultney|first1=Victor|title=Balancing typeface legibility and economy Practical techniques for the type designer|url=http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=BalanLegEcon|publisher=University of Reading (MA thesis)|access-date=13 October 2017}} 10. ^{{cite web|last1=Linotype|title=Excelsior|url=http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/excelsior/|website=MyFonts|access-date=23 May 2015}} 11. ^{{cite web |last1=Schwemer-Scheddin |first1=Yvonne |title=Reputations: Adrian Frutiger |url=http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-adrian-frutiger |website=Eye |access-date=12 September 2015}} 12. ^{{cite book|title=Linotype Corona|date=c. 1951|publisher=Mergenthaler Linotype Company|url=https://archive.org/details/LinotypeCorona1951try2|access-date=1 August 2017}} 13. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=The Legibility of Type|date=1935|publisher=Mergenthaler Linotype Company|location=Brooklyn|url=https://archive.org/details/Mergenthaler1935TheLegibilityOfType|access-date=29 April 2016}} 14. ^{{cite web|last1=Frere-Jones|first1=Tobias|authorlink1=Tobias Frere-Jones|title=Decompiled and Remixed History|url=https://frerejones.com/blog/decompiled-and-remixed-history-the-making-of-exchange|publisher=Frere-Jones Type|access-date=13 October 2017}} 15. ^{{cite book|last1=Hutt|first1=Allen|title=Newspaper Design|date=1971|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=0192129368|pages=54-8|edition=2. ed., reprinted.}} 16. ^{{cite journal|last1=Unger|first1=Gerard|authorlink1=Gerard Unger|title=Experimental No. 223, a newspaper typeface, designed by W.A. Dwiggins|journal=Quaerendo|date=1 January 1981|volume=11|issue=4|pages=302–324|doi=10.1163/157006981X00274}}
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