Bookman

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Bookman (typeface)

Bookman or Bookman Old Style is a serif typeface. It is derived from the design Old Style Antique, created by Alexander Phemister in 1858 for Miller and Richard foundry.

Bookman (as it became) was designed as an alternative to Caslon, with straighter serifs and a wide structure, making it suitable for display and small-print applications although less ideal for body text. It maintains its legibility at small sizes, and has been used extensively for headlines and in advertising. It is particularly associated with the graphic design of the 1960s and 70s, when revivals of it were very popular.

History

Several American foundries copied the Miller and Richard design, including the Bruce Type Foundry of New York, and issued it under various names. In 1901, Bruce refitted their design, made a few other improvements, and rechristened it Bartlett Oldstyle. When Bruce was taken over by American Type Founders shortly thereafter, they changed the name to Bookman Oldstyle.

A tradition dating to the ATF version is that many releases do not have an italic, instead featuring an oblique in which the letters are simply slanted. Serif typefaces which use an oblique are now very rare but a number were developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the time of its creation, Bookman was part of a wide range of American revivals of the Caslon design concept, visible in the wide-spreading arms of the T and the sharp half-arrow serifs on many letters; Ronaldson Old Style by Alexander Kay (1884) was another. In 1936, Chauncey H. Griffith of the American Linotype foundry developed a revival, and Monotype also offered one. (Linotype's has been digitised in its period form, making it one of the few digital versions not based on post-war versions.)

List of D.Gray-man characters

The D.Gray-man anime and manga series features a cast of characters created by Katsura Hoshino. The series is set at the end of a fictional 19th century during which the Black Order searches for Exorcists, the "Apostles of God" chosen to wield a divine substance called Innocence, as they are the only ones who can destroy Akuma, weapons created by the Millennium Earl from souls of the deceased when humans curse God for the loss of loved ones, and stop the Earl's plan to destroy humanity.

The main character of the series is Allen Walker, a young Exorcist who trained under Exorcist General Cross Marian and is sent to officially join the Black Order. Early in the series, he is sent on missions with fellow Exorcists, on which he meets Yu Kanda, a cold and mysterious swordsman looking for a certain person from his past; the friendly Lenalee Lee, who has been an Exorcist her entire life; and Lavi, the cheerful and energetic future Bookman, chronicler of the secret history of the world. They travel the globe, retrieving the pieces of Innocence scattered during the Great Flood and recruiting new Exorcists while fighting the Earl and his Akuma. However, the Black Order soon learns that the Earl has help in the form of the Clan of Noah, a group of thirteen super-humans who can destroy Innocence and claim to be the true "Apostles of God." Both groups quickly begin searching for the Great Heart, the most powerful Innocence that can strengthen or destroy all the others, to bring an end to the war.