At 10:07 AM 10/24/06 +0100, Ken Moore wrote:
>Comrie seemed to think (c.1940) that they were an 
>objectionable American innovation.  I am interested in the suggestion 
>that they were originally intended for titles.  Publishers of books of 
>mathematical tables would presumably want to use the smallest characters 
>that were still legible enough not to cause eye-strain or misreading.

Bringhurst identifies the titling numerical font for numbers in 1788, as
part of a rising merchant class.

Dennis


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