Word: serif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were camp curiosities at best -- parochial, high-strung, dead-end digressions. Today, however, a kind of Viennese revival is under way. Prominent designers and architects are producing furniture and buildings distinctly reminiscent of Hoffmann, Wagner and Adolf Loos. Every second book jacket, it seems, has a thick, angular sans serif typeface derived from the Wiener Werkstatte, the seminal crafts collaborative established in the city in 1903. Nearly the whole crop of high-design coffee services and teapots marketed since 1980 seems to have been plucked from an avant-garde Viennese workshop sometime before...
...were not designed to accomplish the necessary combination of legibility, speed and ease. At the start, schools require five-and six-year-olds to construct an alphabet out of circles and straight lines. Calligraphers say that it is wrong to expect the resulting letters to resemble the modern sans-serif type faces that the children are simultaneously learning to read. Young hands can rarely produce the subtle but important nuances of printed type. The so-called ball-and-stick method requires exceptional motor coordination, and the effort spoils the handwriting of many youngsters for life...