Re: The name of the typeface

Danny Wilde wrote: 
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I like the one used in Genki, textbook, if anybody is
familiar with it.


(grabs a dusty copy off one of wife's bookcases) In Volume I, page 12,
there's a paragraph (in a Minchou typeface) explaining that most of the
book is set in a kyoukasho typeface (and why), and giving examples of
those two typefaces as well as a gothic face.

The word "gothic" apparently was used for
sans-serif fonts, a Japanese web page claims, in America, and it comes from
that.


That's correct.  I worked for a typesetting company/type foundry
in the late 1980s (for among other reasons, it was a good way to
get free USENET access, and we had a direct dialup connection to
utgpu), and I think the old hands would still sometimes cringe
when we talked about "sans serif fonts" instead of "gothic
typefaces".  In Europe, they were called grotesque fonts, which
makes about as much sense.

Danny's list of styles 

That's fascinating and very useful.  Maybe you could add it to
the Wikipedia to make it easier to find?

John
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