Rockwell is a seriftypeface belonging to the family of slab serif (or "egyptian") typefaces, where the serifs are about as thick as the main strokes in each letter. This makes it useful primarily for decorative purposes and headlines, but is not typically used for body text. Rockwell typeface sample. ... In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of grapheme (i. ... A sample of the Rockwell typeface, a slab serif font In typography, a slab serif (also called square serif or egyptian) typeface is a type of serif typeface characterized by thick, block-like serifs. ... A grapheme designates the atomic unit in written language. ... A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ...
It is based on an earlier, more condensed slab serif design called Litho Antique. The 1933 design for Monotype was supervised by Frank Hinman Pierpont. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Currently Monotype Imaging, Inc, a typesetting and typeface design company responsible for many developments in printing technology — in particular the Monotype machine which was the first fully mechanical typesetter — and the design and production of typefaces in the 19th and 20th centuries. ...
The Guinness World Records used Rockwell in some of their early-1990s editions. The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ...
In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of letter designs, making a complete alphabet, and generally intended to be made into a font for printing or use on a computer display.
In digital fonts, the image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and curves enclosing space (an outline font, also called "vector font").
A Gothic typeface was thus also carved by Johannes Gutenberg when he printed his 42-line Bible, including a large number of ligatures[?] and common abbreviations.
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