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grot

 
   
any sans serif ypeface


COMMENT: Sans faces are called ‘grot’ in British English and ‘gothic’ in US English. The first sans faces appeared in the first part of the 19th century and were called ‘grotesque’ because they seemed so strange.
 

 

 

 
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