Serif type development. Please help. I'm confused.?

Question

i knw that the Romans can up with the serif idea when they chisseled into stone and cracked the stone on the sides and it wasn't neat enough so some one (who i odnt know?) came up with the serif to make the ends neater but where do the Greek and Latin come in here? the Italic is related to the inventors of serif. am i right? italic comes from the word Italy and Renaissance people are people from Rome, Italy? am i right there? so how did the serif develop throughout the yrs?

so who are the Phoenicians? are they greek?

Answer 1

The names refer to handwriting and printing. Italic, is a handwriting that was 'modern' or in the Italian style during the Renaissance, when northern Europe was using black hand, or Gothic handwriting, developed by monks.

The serif makes stone letters easier to read in sunlight, as the small chips at the end of the straight lines catch the shadows. The idea was much older, in that the Sumerians discovered that you could not see curved lines in wet clay, when writing their clay tablets, so used straight lines. however, when dry, these were hard to read in candle-light. thus they developed a triangular stylus = cuneiform.

we used serif type faces, because we wanted to seen as clever, and during the restoration (1800) the height of intelligence was to learn Greek and Latin. thus cleaver folks wanted serious literature to be in a style of ancient writing in Latin, not in the new 'humanist' handwriting (italic).

people like Eric Gill and the Bauhaus invented San's (without) serif typefaces in the 1930's as they discovered that they are easier to read.

Answer 2

To answer your supplementary/second question -

Sometime in the Late Bronze Age, around 1300 BC, a group of Semitic people living on the Mediterranean coast in modern Lebanon became more important than they had been before. These people, who had been called Canaanites, were now called the Phoenicians. They became more important because the kingdoms which had been controlling them before (mainly the Egyptians, the Hittites, and the Assyrians) got weaker, and so the Phoenicians were able to get a little stronger and more independent.
The Phoenicians became excellent sailors, and traded all over the Mediterranean, including to Greece.

During the Dark Ages, the Phoenicians got even stronger and began to start colonies all over the Mediterranean: new cities in new places with Phoenician people living in them. One of the most important of these colonies was Carthage, in Africa, but there were many others.
After the Dark Ages, the Phoenicians traded with the Greeks again, and now also with the Etruscans. They learned the alphabet and taught it to their trade partners.

But in 539 BC the Phoenicians, like everybody else in West Asia, were conquered by the Persians. They became part of the Persian Empire, and the main part of the Persian navy. Because the Phoenicians had been conquered, they could not run their colonies anymore, and so Carthage and the other Phoenician colonies became independent.
In 332 BC Alexander the Great attacked the main Phoenician capital, and the head of the Persian navy, Tyre. After a long siege, he captured Tyre, and the Phoenicians became part of his empire.

Answer 3

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