The “defects” were supposed to be: “Too long a beak to the f and j ; unnecessary narrowness in the s and a , and in some capitals; too great width of the c , o and v .”
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress
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