Oldstyle

Oldstyle is one of the more basic fonts. Types such as Goudy, Palatino, Times New Roman, Baskerville, and Garamond are all oldstyle. This category is based on handlettering of scribes. The category consists have serif fonts. The are all curved strokes in the letterforms and have transitions from thick to thin. This is called the "Thick/Thin Transition". If you draw a line through the thinnest parts of the curved strokes, the line is diagonal. This is called stress.