“Roman [type] has come to be divided into three categories. Those having calligraphic stress and bracketed serifs are old style. Romain du roi was the forerunner of the types called transitional. The third category, modern, is applied to those alphabets, starting with Bodoni’s in 1790, which have lost all relationship to written models.”

–Warren Chappell, A Short History of the Printed Word, 1970.