Weight (type) - weight

Japanese: ウェイト(活字) - うぇいと
Weight (type) - weight

...Furthermore, from the end of the 19th century to the 20th century, many designers, including Frederic William Goudy (1865-1947) of the United States and Eric Gill (1882-1940) of England, created new typography. As such, the typefaces of Western type appear to be numerous and complex, but typefaces of the same design are grouped into series according to the width of the characters and the darkness of the characters (called weight), and each series is collected to form a family. However, the basic typefaces of Western type are basically reduced to six types: Gothic (also called text), Roman (there are three types: Venetian, old style, and modern), script, Egyptian (also called square serif), sans serif, and their oblique versions, the italics. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "weight (type)" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…さらに19世紀末から20世紀にかけてはアメリカのガウディFrederic William Goudy(1865‐1947),イギリスのギルEric Gill(1882‐1940)ら多数のデザイナーが新しい活字を作り出した。このように欧文活字の書体は,種類が非常に多く複雑のようであるが,図案的に同一系統の書体は,字幅の広狭,字面の黒さ(ウェイトという)の軽重の変化に応じて,それぞれシリーズseriesにまとめられ,その各シリーズを集めて一つのファミリーfamilyができている。ただし,欧文活字の基本的書体は,基本的にはゴシック(テキストともいう),ローマン(ベネチアン,オールドスタイル,モダンの3種がある),スクリプト,エジプシアン(スクエアセリフともいう),サンセリフ,それぞれの斜体であるイタリックの6種に集約される。…

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