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82 HISTORIC FEINTING TYPES. Peculiarities of Large face. XLII. ClCSROj GROS <IL, dans le gout introducing it as "dans le gout Hollandois." The short letters are compressed, and of unusual height, while the ascenders and descend- ers are shortened. The capital letters are not condensed at all, and seem disproportionate- ly large. The flat serifs at the foot of hues and angled serifs at the top are unusually short. The body-marks are thinner; the hair lines have more slenderness. Effort has been made to give openness in the counters. It is a very readable type, but not so economical of space as it appears. More JLiA pluspart des homines de Lettres ne fe piquent que de doftrine & a erudition j Us entaflent livres fur livres , fcience fur fcience quine pro-, duifent que de Tobfcurite' , de la fecherefle & du travers dans 1'efprit ; c'eft pourquoi il fe rrouve plus de gens de favoir que de bon fens, Le bon fens va droit au vrai; 1'eloquence n'en eft que Tinterprete , . & tout fon but eft de lui donner de la force & de la clartd : fi quelquefois elle s'e'chappe a y jeter de certains agremens, c'eft pour le rendre plus aim able* lines can be got in a page, but not so many letters in a line, as com- pared with types of a more recent fashion that have shorter ascenders and descenders. This style was A popular type in France. popular in France and Holland for nearly a century before Fac-simile of Fournier's " Large Face," from the Manuel Typographique.