Sans-Serif oder Egytian... und manches mehr

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English sign painters and some other lettering artists went on using ‘Egyptian’ for sanserif until into the 20th century.

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… that was drawn by John Soane when he was in Rome in 1780. It is the earliest known example of the monoline sanserif inscriptional letter of Republican Rome that was revived at this date and became widely used for signs and typography.

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http://typefoundry.blogspot.com/2007/01 ... pdate.html