![]() ![]() However, it was some decades before a printing typeface would be released in this style, now commonly used. Historian James Mosley, a leading expert on early sans-serifs, has suggested in his textbook The Nymph and The Grot that Soane's influence was crucial in spreading the idea of sans-serif letterforms around the end of the eighteenth century. Sans-serif lettering in block capitals had been developing in popularity over the past decades, initially due to interest in classical antiquity in which inscriptions often had minimal or no serifs, and come to be used by architect John Soane and copied by others, particularly in signpainting. The Two Lines English Egyptiantypeface is a font created by the Caslon foundry of Salisbury Square, London around or probably slightly before 1816, that is the first general-purpose sans-serif typeface in the Latin alphabet known to have been created. Caslon's Egyptian in an early specimen book. ![]()
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