I was looking into early letter forms and found this delightful book on sign-painting from 1878. https://ia600606.us.archive.org/32/items/artofletteringsi00boy

I was looking into early letter forms and found this delightful book on sign-painting from 1878. https://ia600606.us.archive.org/32/items/artofletteringsi00boyc/artofletteringsi00boyc.pdf https://ia600606.us.archive.org/32/items/artofletteringsi00b... One thing I found interesting is the terminology around types were not serif and san-serif but roman style and egyptian style. roman is still sort of used this way but I had never heard the term egyptian to refer to san serif letter forms. I wonder when we lost it.