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  Be believe that is ‘trapping’, an ‘ink trap’ or a ‘well’. It’s typical of text faces designed to print at smaller sizes. The larger volume of ink at the wide base of the letter tends to diffuse into the paper. The indentation counteracts the spread of the ink, resulting in a straight line when printed on newsprint or other poor quality stock. Titling faces might have less of this because they are made for larger print size.

  At some point this became a stylistic choice, rather than a technical feature. If you want to see a lot of trapping, look at bell gothic, a typeface made for printing very small on very poor quality paper (phone books).

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  • Bell Centennial was the one I was think of with the heavy trapping. https://en.m.wikiped…monNom

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