In this task, I was asked to find a typeface family and represent it using different sizes and font styles. The requirements of the task were to include the full lower case alphabet, a sentence which uses all letters of the alphabet, numbers zero to nine, a capital and lower case 'g' and my given name.
The typeface that I have used for this task is called 'Bookman Old Style' which is a serif typeface. It is utilized mainly for news headlines and advertising, although I believe it could be used for human interest stories in magazines as the bolder text is reminiscent of the fonts that are used in pull quotes.
The 'Bookman Old Style' typeface originated from the font known as 'Old Style Antique' which was created by Alexander Phemister in 1858. In 1901, a company called Bruce Type Foundry redesigned the typeface to 'Bartlett Oldstyle'. Bruce Type Foundry were soon taken over by American Type Founders, and the typeface was renamed to 'Bookman Old Style'.
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