In reply to Research paper on Bodoni/transitional:
Yes, because the sans emerged as an atavism—from the grotto, according to Mosley:
http://www.amazon.ca/Nymph-Grot-Revival-Sanserif-Letter/dp/0953520102
(This is the seminal text on the birth of the sans, locating it in the early 19th century rather than as a twentieth century modernist phenomenon, which had been the traditional idea in design culture dominated by the Modernist narrative, ignoring the first sans faces as an incidental aberration.)
