There are many typefaces that were created for different effects on paper. For example, Garamond is an elegant old style font used primarily on book printing and body text. On the other hand, a font style like Didot is a lot more modern-looking with strong contrasts between thick and thin lining.
Garamond
This font type is named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond. Garamond’s types were influenced by the now called old style of serif letter design. Old style type is characterized by a lack of large differences between thick and thin lines and generally, but less often, by the thinnest parts of letters being at an angle rather than at the top and bottom (diagonal stress).
Didot
Didot is named after the famous French printing and type producing Didot family. The classification is known as modern, or Didone. Didone is a genre of serif typeface characterized by narrow serifs, thick vertical strokes, and a strong contrast between thick and thin lines. The most famous Didot typefaces were developed in the period 1784–1811. Firmin Didot cut the letters, and cast them as type in Paris. His brother, Pierre Didot used the types in printing.
