Club foot (furniture) Club foot (furniture) A club foot is a type of rounded foot for a piece of furniture, such as the end of a chair leg. It is also known by the alternative names pad foot and Dutch foot, the latter sometimes corrupted into duck foot. Such feet are rounded flat pads or disks at the end of furniture legs. Pad feet were regularly used on cabriole legs during the 18th century. They can be found on tables, chairs, and some early sofas. Pad feet were first seen in the French and Italian Renaissance periods and have been widely used ever
Century type family copied by Linotype, Intertype, and Monotype. As oldstyle faces gained in popularity during the photo-comp era, "Century Oldstyle" was copied more widely then than during the hot type era. Copies were made under following names: "Century Catalogue" (as spelled in ATF specimen books) had a lower x-height than "Century Expanded" but, despite longer ascenders, adheres to the same general design. "Century Catalogue Italic" is basically a re-working of "Baskerville Italic", only the A, V and W being different. Both were designed by M.F. Benton and released by A.T.F. in 1917. As far as is known, "Century Catalogue" was never copied