Editing Sans-serif (section)

===Early===
*"Egyptian": The name of Caslon's first general-purpose sans-serif printing type; also documented as being used by [[Joseph Farington]] to describe seeing the sans-serif inscription on John Flaxman's memorial to [[Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet)|Isaac Hawkins Brown]] in 1805,{{sfn|Mosley|1999|page=1{{ndash}}19}} though today{{When|date=August 2021}}<!-- Since what year has this been the case? --> the term is commonly used to refer to [[slab serif]], not sans-serif.
*"Antique": Particularly popular in France;<ref name=nymphgrot_update />  some families such as [[Antique Olive]], still carry the name.
*"Grotesque": Popularised by [[William Thorowgood]] of [[Fann Street]] Foundry from around 1830.<ref name="A Neo-Grotesque Heritage" /><ref name="Two Lines English Egyptian typophile" />{{sfn|Lawson|1990|p=296}} The name came from the Italian word 'grottesco', meaning 'belonging to the cave'. In Germany, the name became ''Grotesk''.
*"Doric": Used by the Caslon foundry in London
*"Gothic": Popular with American type founders. Perhaps the first use of the term was due to the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, which in 1837 published a set of sans-serif typefaces under that name. It is believed that those were the first sans-serif designs to be introduced in America.{{sfn|Lawson|1990|p=295}} The term may have derived from the architectural definition, which is neither Greek nor Roman,<ref>[http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/oed.html OED Definition of Gothic]</ref> and from the extended adjective term of "Germany", which was the place where sans-serif typefaces became popular in the 19th to 20th centuries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linotype.com/en/795/thesansseriftypefaces.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.linotype.com/en/795/thesansseriftypefaces.html |archive-date=4 May 2014 |title=The Sans Serif Typefaces |website=Linotype.com}}</ref> Early adopters for the term includes [[Miller & Richard]] (1863),{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} and {{nobr|[[J. R. M. Wood]]}} (1865).{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} <!-- What is this random list? : Lothian, Conner, Bruce McKellar --> In China, Japan and Korea, [[East Asian gothic typeface]]s  are a type style characterized by strokes of even thickness and lack of decorations, thus akin to sans-serif styles in Western type design.