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SERIF: OLD STYLE
Bembo: Italian, designed by Francesco Griffo, 1495. So clear and readable I named my cat after it.
Garamond: French, designed by Claude Garamond, 1532. Refined and beautiful.
Ehrhardt: Dutch, designed by Miklos Kis, 1691. An Hungarian typecutter working in Amsterdam for a German company, 300 years before the EU.
Plantin: Belgian, designed by Robert Granjon, 1700. Before Times took over the world, this was the default serif font.
Caslon: British, designed by William Caslon, 1725. Full of grace and charm.
Berling: Danish, designed by Karl-Erik Forsberg, 1951. Classic and dignified, perhaps a little too wide for C21 tastes.
Trump Mediaeval: German, designed by Georg Trump, 1954. The italic ampersand is the most beautiful single character in typography. &

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