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Hi, I am new on your blog, and the only reason I subscribed to it is to try to learn more about online designing and online behavior :)
I don’t want to sound ignorant but I would like to know what’s a Slab. Is it a new type of font?
It means slab serif, a style of type also known as “Egyptian.” Clarendon, used in the masthead of this site (i.e. the font used for “zeldman.com”), is a slab serif.
Read more at Linotype.
Slab serifs at Typedia.
Great! thank you so much for the information.
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