Some letters made with greater competence. Type makers in search of novelty found countless ways to vary the designs of serifs, brackets, and stems, and cross-pollinating these techniques produced an endless number of new styles. I especially like the two in the upper-right corner, which combine outwardly flared strokes, nodules congregating around the midline, surface ornamentation, a vertical drop shadow, and trapezoidal serifs that master signpainter and type designer John Downer has termed “The Detroit Serif.”