Review Week 17

At the end of the "Who Shot the Serif?" article it asks the reader a question: Have you learned anything?  I learned many new things about serifs.  Many people do not know how to define serifs.  They are basically the lines at the end of each letter.  Serifs are said to come from Rome.  Before anything was carved into stone, it was painted.  The paint brush left extra marks at the end of the letters, which were then carved into the stone.  This was the first form of serifs.  Two basic types of serifs are Adnate and Abrupt.  Abrupt serifs are simply strait lines whereas Adnate serifs curve off the letters.  This article gives the reader a good idea what serifs are and how they originated.