Father Catich and the Serif: An Emendation
Paul,
This is from your note on Cramsie’s book:
p. 43 “Some historians have linked the invention of the Roman serif to the carver’s chisel…. Another more recent theory has linked it to the invention of a square-cut writing implement; not a reed or quill, but a flat brush….”
[Father E.M. Catich should be identified as the author of the second theory which is now the preferred one.]
In saying this, like many others you do some injustice to W. R. Lethaby, who in …
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